Je suis sans pitié ! Je suis sans pitié ! Plus les vers se tordent, plus grande est mon envie de leur écraser les entrailles ! C'est comme une rage de dent morale, et je broie avec d'autant plus d’énergie que la douleur est plus vive.
Emily Brontë
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laughed.
[Fr., La plus perdue d... CATULLUS (CAIUS QUINTUS VALERIUS CATULLUS)
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reader, I married him. CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to... CHARLOTTE BRONTë If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a... CHARLOTTE BRONTë No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all re... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl... CHARLOTTE BRONTë In genere si crede che le donne siano molto quiete: le donne invece provano gli stessi sentimenti de... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer. CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. ANNE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a... CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you... CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th... CHARLOTTE BRONTë At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab... CHARLOTTE BRONTë All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when ... ANNE BRONTë It is a long way off, sir" "From what Jane?" "From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o... CHARLOTTE BRONTë An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her... CHARLOTTE BRONTë But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well! CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obs... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it ... ANNE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus CHARLOTTE BRONTë I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive ... ANNE BRONTë You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take... ANNE BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of t... CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Evening Solace The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sea... CHARLOTTE BRONTë A spirit of candor and frankness, when wholly unaccompanied with coarseness, he admired in othe... ANNE BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m... CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . because we cannot conceive that as we grow up our own minds will become so enlarged and elevat... ANNE BRONTë Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and ... ANNE BRONTë How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our o... ANNE BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort... CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b... CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force! CHARLOTTE BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. CHARLOTTE BRONTë Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love... CHARLOTTE BRONTë And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M... CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n... CHARLOTTE BRONTë And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charm... ANNE BRONTë I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh... CHARLOTTE BRONTë The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivi... CHARLOTTE BRONTë What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the... CHARLOTTE BRONTë To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking. CHARLOTTE BRONTë And what is hell? Can you tell me that?” “A pit full of fire.” “And should you lik... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird, no net ensnares me. CHARLOTTE BRONTë