Charlotte Brontë - Villette (1853)

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Liberty lends us her wings and Hope guides us by her star.

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Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.

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Fifine was a frank gourmand; anybody could win her heart through her palate.

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I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.

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No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

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While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

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But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

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There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

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If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

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