Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar.
You transfix me quite. - Charlotte Bronte
You transfix me quite.
- Charlotte Bronte
He is not to them what he is to me. - Charlotte Bronte
He is not to them what he is to me.
Make my happiness--I will make yours. - Charlotte Bronte
Make my happiness--I will make yours.
[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived. - Charlotte Bronte
[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.
Your will shall decide your destiny. - Charlotte Bronte
Your will shall decide your destiny.
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. - Charlotte Bronte
To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only.
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. - Charlotte Bronte
There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank. - Charlotte Bronte
Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst stran… - Charlotte Bronte
There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst stran…
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