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“Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity had not yet found the key.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“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.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“There ain't no answer.
There ain't gonna be any answer.
There never has been an answer.
There's your answer.”
― Gertrude Stein

“Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Hell is—other people!”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
― Virginia Woolf

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― William Gibson, Pattern Recognition

“You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays. The things these scribblers write!”
― Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“If you like nerds, raise your hand. If you don't, raise your standards.”
― Violet Haberdasher

“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”
― John Irving, A Widow for One Year

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle