129 Quotes About Jane-eyre
- Author Charlotte Brontë
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¿Quién podría culparme por ello? Mucha gente, sin duda; y también dirán que soy una insatisfecha. No podía evitarlo; mi naturaleza era inquieta de por sí, lo cual me conturbaba dolorosamente en ocasiones.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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What strength had I to dart retaliation at my antagonist
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I would always rather be happy than dignified..
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Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as myown: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Yourmind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be mytreasure still: if you raved, my arms should confine you,and not a strait waistcoat—your grasp, even in fury, wouldhave a charm for me.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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strong features, firm, grim mouth, — all energy, decision, will, — were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me
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Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary.
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And I do not want a stranger - unsympathising, alien, different from me; I want my kidred: those with whom I have a full fellow-feeling.
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Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.
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- Author Charlotte Brontë
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It is a long way off, sir.”“No matter—a girl of your sense will not object to the voyage or the distance.”“Not the voyage, but the distance: and then the sea is a barrier—”“From what, Jane?”“From England and from Thornfield: and—”“Well?”“From you, sir.
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