He is more me than I am myself
("Wuthering Heights")
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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.Emily Bronte
I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes-to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, life-like gaze of exultation, before any one else beheld it. They would not shut; they seemed to sneer at my attempts, and his parted lips and sharp, white teeth sneered too!
Emily Bronte
I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again-it is hers yet-he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it...
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Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes.
Emily Bronte
What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
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But this world's life has much to dread,
Not so, my Father, with the dead.
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