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Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

Charlotte Bronte

Pushing Me Away, Accord, Shakes

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.360, Penguin

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A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published

Charlotte Bronte

Men, Long Ago, Males

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For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

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Reading, Serious, Kind

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My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.

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Brother, Home, Humble

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I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

Charlotte Bronte

Thinking, Impossible, Natural

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.117, Penguin

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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.

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Life, Depression, Loneliness

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.36, Penguin

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Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale -- a daydream." "Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.

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Destiny, Different, World

Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.249, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

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Grief, Eye, Strange

Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.177, Everyman's Library

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At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as light-headed, as vain, as open to ridicule as possible; because they were then in reality what he held them to be, and wished them to be,--inferior: toys to play with, to amuse a vacant hour and to be thrown away.

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Silly, Heart, Reality

Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.119, Everyman's Library

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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

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Memories, Years, Age

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Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

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Sympathy, Grief, People

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

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I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.

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Mistake, Wish, Would Be

Charlotte Bronte, K. M. Weiland (2014). “Jane Eyre”, p.145, "F+W Media, Inc."

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Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.

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Believe, Sleep, Night

Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.41, Harper Collins

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Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

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Self, Rivers, Mountain

Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.

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Mind, Want, Easy

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.220, Penguin

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I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?

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Girl, Memories, Envy

Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.

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Grief, Sea, People

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

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It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

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Views, Effort, Suffering

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Alas! never had I loved him so well!

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Wells, Alas

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.202, Penguin

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Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.

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Heart, Broken, Littles

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

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Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision. Strong wind, earthquake-shock, and fire may pass by: but I shall follow the guiding of that still small voice which interprets the dictates of conscience.

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Strong, Passion, Wind

Charlotte Bronte “Annotated Jane Eyre: An Autobiography with English Grammar Exercises: by Charlotte Bronte (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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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 you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

Charlotte Bronte

Heart, Eye, Expression

Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.

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Believe, Have Faith, Hours

Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.38, Variocity

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I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.

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Believe, Heart, Insults You

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.216, Penguin

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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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Long, Shining, Beam

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