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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

Charlotte Bronte
Monotony, Feels, Monotonous
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Edition”, p.95, ReadHowYouWant.com

Men, in general, are a sort of scum, very different to anything of which you have an idea.

Charlotte Bronte
Men, Ideas, Different
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.126, ReadHowYouWant.com

I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.

Charlotte Bronte
Strong, Powerful, Spring
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.337, Simon and Schuster

I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.

Charlotte Bronte
Believe, I Believe, Villette
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.171, ReadHowYouWant.com

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

Charlotte Bronte
Dream, Years, Gone

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Charlotte Bronte
Spring, Night, Gourds

Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.

Charlotte Bronte
Stars, Loneliness, Wings
Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.56, Xist Publishing

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

Charlotte Bronte
Sweet, Madness, Delusion
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.352, Penguin

True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.

Charlotte Bronte
Feelings, Enthusiasm, Flash

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

Charlotte Bronte
Sleep, Genuine, Tact
Charlotte Bronte (2010). “Shirley and The Professor”, p.684, Everyman's Library

There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

Charlotte Bronte
Heartbreak, Remembrance, Use
Anne Bronte, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Jane Bronte (2012). “The Bronte Sisters: Selected Poems”, p.46, Routledge

You transfix me quite.

Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Bronte (2011). “Jane Eyre (Movie Tie-in Edition)”, p.651, Vintage

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

Charlotte Bronte
Men, Race, Earth
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.61, Penguin

Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!

Charlotte Bronte
Force, Gentleness
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.340, Penguin

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

Charlotte Bronte
Eye, Soul, Truthful
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.258, Penguin

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

Charlotte Bronte
Inexperience, Youth, Blind
Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.

Charlotte Bronte
Break Up, Heartbreak, Heartbroken
"Wuthering Heights". Book by Emily Bronte, www.theguardian.com. December 1847.

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

I am no bird and no net ensnares me

Charlotte Bronte
Bird
Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.207, Penguin

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

Charlotte Bronte
Rights, Forever, Poison
1857 The Professor, ch.20.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

Charlotte Bronte
People, Excellence, Talent

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.

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

Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.

Charlotte Bronte
Eye, Ears, Sound
Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Villette”, p.264, Xist Publishing

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Charlotte Bronte
Advantage, Worst, Knows
Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette: Easyread Edition”, p.335, ReadHowYouWant.com

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