I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!
("Wuthering Heights")
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Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish, How could I seek the empty world againEmily Bronte
He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.
Emily Bronte
Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights.
Emily Bronte
And even for that spirit, seer,
I've watched and sought my life - time long;
Sought him in heaven, hell, earth and air -
An endless search, and always wrong!
Emily Bronte
May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.
Emily Bronte
What I love shall come like visitant of air,
Safe in secret power from lurking human snare;
What loves me, no word of mine shall e'er betray,
Though for faith unstained my life must forfeit pay.
Emily Bronte
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