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Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

Charlotte Bronte

Morning, Spring, Night

Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.

Charlotte Bronte

Real, World, Fields

Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.40, Variocity

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Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

Demand, Maids, Occupation

1849 Shirley, ch.22.

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It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.

Charlotte Bronte

Lapses, Answers, Tongue

Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Charlotte Bronte

Selfish, Laughing, Soul

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.354, Penguin

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To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

Charlotte Bronte

Men, Judging, Judge Me

Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.

Charlotte Bronte

Sister, World, Affection

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I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.

Charlotte Bronte

Judging, Judge Me, Critics

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If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

Charlotte Bronte

Kindness, Cutting, Clouds

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.475, The Floating Press

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There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Charlotte Bronte

May, Cost, Lovers

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.320, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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 rest of me from your presence forever.

Charlotte Bronte

Heart, Fate, Forever

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.361, Penguin

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But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

Charlotte Bronte

Lying, Heart, Sadness

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.319, ReadHowYouWant.com

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You need not think that because we chanced to be born of the same parents, I shall suffer you to fasten me down by even the feeblest claim: I can tell you this - if the whole human race, ourselves excepted, were swept away, and we two stood alone on the earth, I would leave you in the old world, and betake myself to new.

Charlotte Bronte

Thinking, Race, Two

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.194, Penguin

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If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

Charlotte Bronte

War, Destiny, Life Is

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Large Edition”, p.84, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm, looking to the end.

Charlotte Bronte

Crush, Revenge, Home

Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.

Charlotte Bronte

Husband, Things I Love, Flesh

Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

Charlotte Bronte

Prayer, Wind, Liberty

Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.111, Simon and Schuster

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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.

Charlotte Bronte

Love, Romantic, Pain

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.135, ReadHowYouWant.com

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If there is one notion I hate more than another, it is that of marriage - I mean marriage in the vulgar, weak sense, as a mere matter of sentiment.

Charlotte Bronte

Hate, Mean, Matter

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.31, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.

Charlotte Bronte

Flattery, Rudeness, Deals

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.215, Penguin

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I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart.

Charlotte Bronte

Heart, Thinking, Guests

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.115, Penguin

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But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent.

Charlotte Bronte

Lying, Years, Creative

Emily Bronte, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë (1851). “Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey: In Two Volumes”, p.19

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Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

Charlotte Bronte

Struggle, Independent, Bird

Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve: there is nothing to grieve about. We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest. I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me. By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.

Charlotte Bronte

Regret, Father, Grieving

Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…To Your Partner: Jane Eyre & Anna Karenina”, p.50, Random House

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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, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

Charlotte Bronte

Love, Integrity, Women

Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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Born: April 21, 1816
Died: March 31, 1855
Occupation: Novelist
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