For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
("Jane Eyre")
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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
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My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.
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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.
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Every good, true, vigorous feeling I have gathers impulsively round him. I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract; I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him. I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered- and yet, while I breath and think, I must love him
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And if I let a gust of wind or a sprinkling of rain turn me aside from these easy tasks, what preparation would such sloth be for the future I propose to myself?
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