129 Quotes About Jane-eyre
- Author Charlotte Brontë
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To be together is for us to be at once free as in solitude, as gay as in company. We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but more animated and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character - perfect concord is the result.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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Unjust! - unjust!' said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power; and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression - as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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I had wakened the glow: his features beamed.'Oh, you are indeed there, my sky-lark!
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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Diana announced that she would just give me time to get over the honey-moon, and then she would come and see me.'She had better not wait till then, Jane,' said Mr. Rochester, when I read her letter to him; 'if she does, she will be too late, for our honey-moon will shine our life-long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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Las personas reservadas muchas veces necesitan más que las expansivas hablar abiertamente de sus sentimientos y penas. Incluso el estoico más firme es humano, e irrumpir con valor en el mar silencioso de sus almas, a menudo supone hacerles el mayor favor
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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You have a curious, designing mind, Mr Rochester. I am afraid your principles on some points are eccentric.""My principles were never trained, Jane: they may have growm a little awry for want of attention.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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My hopes were all dead — struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt.
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