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“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 care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary

“Els Moretti no tenien res en contra d'aquella gent, ni del pragmatisme que arrossegaven a l'es-quena i que havia possibilitat la creació i la grandesa d'aquell país, ells mateixos es consideraven aventurers i concebien la vida com una conquesta contínua, però pensaven que en se-gons quines coses havia arribat el moment de redreçar-lo. La pràctica i la funcionalitat no ho justificaven tot. I aque-lla nació s'havia quedat enganxada a la inèrcia de la pressa, tothom anava corrents d'un lloc a l'altre, com si dugueren una tribu d'indis al darrere: s'engolien carn picada en forma de salsitxes o d'hamburgueses per no perdre el temps rose-gant-la, atapeïen els transports públics i els ascensors per guanyar espai, llegien els periòdics mentre caminaven a en-tropessons pels carrers, es prenien el café abrasint i arreaven a córrer cap a la faena. Però ningú no s'havia adonat que ja no hi quedaven indis d'aquells. Els indis d'ara eren les empreses implacables, els llargs horaris laborals, els salaris que curte-javen, les hores extraordinàries, la pluriocupació, les lletres dels crèdits que vencien cada més i l'ambició compartida del somni americà.”
― Francesc Bodí, L’única veritat