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.
("Jane Eyre")
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But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?
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His idea was still with me, because it was not a vapor sunshine could disperse, nor a sand-traced effigy storms could wash away; it was a name graven on a tablet, fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed. The craving to know what had become of him followed me everywhere.
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Will he find love without lust's leaven,
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To all with equal bounty given,
In all, unfeigned, unfailing, sure?
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