That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.


Charlotte Brontë

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No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you kno...
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I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!
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Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...
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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.
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Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, ...
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I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.
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Monsieur, if a wife's nature loathes that of the man she is wedded to, marriage must be slavery. Aga...
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I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refi...
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Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its ...
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - ...
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Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.
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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love our friends for their sakes rathe...
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I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as ...
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Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn...
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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
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We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the gr...
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I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
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It is a long way to Ireland, Janet, and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: b...
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I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish ...
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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...
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Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
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Reader, I married him.
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If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br...
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
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No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."

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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- ...
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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...
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It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
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Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
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It is a long way off, sir"
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"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë
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The word book acted as a transient stimulus
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...
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And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...
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To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
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And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
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I am no bird, no net ensnares me.
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Conventionality is not morality.
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Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the ...
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I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
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Do you like him much?'
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They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. "Oh, comply!" it said. "Think of hi...
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
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[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
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Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I...
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Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had bee...
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It is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a simil...
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(...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her ...
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I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me wh...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
He turned away; he threw himself on his face on the sofa. 'Oh, Jane! my hope - my love - my life!' b...
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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I be...
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I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A...
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I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best ...
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Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tigh...
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Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning gra...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations...
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Now, I've another errand for you,' said my untiring master; "you must away to my room again. What a ...
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I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.'

'Station! Station!-- y...
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When once more alone, I reviewed the information I had got; looked into my heart, examined its thoug...
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What the deuce is to do now?
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My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, ...
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I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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I am a free human being with an independent will."
Jane Eyre
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
You transfix me quite.
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Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions ...
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A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people we...
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Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourless, olive face, squa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended noti...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other wall...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked.

“Oh no! About six months ago I had...
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Yes Mrs Reed, to you i owe some fearful pangs of mental suffering, but i ought to forgive you, for y...
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This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are aba...
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Who told you I was called Carl David?" "A little bird, Monsieur." "Does it fly from me to you? Then ...
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...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeli...
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For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shephe...
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But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me tha...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose vo...
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Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you can...
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Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"

Reader, I forgave him ...
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It would take a great deal to crush me
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The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upw...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and...
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I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
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I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...
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My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long ti...
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Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h...
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Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...
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Quando uma mulher sente desprezo pelo seu marido, o casamento passa a ser uma escravidão, e contra ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci...
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I romanzieri non dovrebbero mai consentire a se stessi di stancarsi dell’indagine della vita reale...
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He that is low need fear no fall.
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...there were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utteranc...
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. . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit...
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. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
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I gave, at first, attention close;
Then interest warm ensued;
From interest, as improvem...
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Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos
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Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser
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It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.
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-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
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A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
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I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...
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Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h...
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I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer
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I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du...
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And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....
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Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ...
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I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
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All men must die.
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Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.
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You are human and fallible.
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