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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    tags: evil, good
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    tags: grudges
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “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
    tags: age, empowerment, equality, experience, freedom, gender, independence, men, reason, self-determination, submission, superiority, women, women-s-rights
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    Emily Brontë
    “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Emily Brontë
    “She burned too bright for this world.”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: life
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    Emily Brontë
    “I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: heart, heartbroken
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    Emily Brontë
    “If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: classics, love, obsession
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    Emily Brontë
    “I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Emily Brontë
    “It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: life
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “... the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
    tags: friendship
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “We have no immortal souls; we have no future life; we are just like the green sea-weed, which, once cut down, can never revive again! Men, on the other hand, have a soul which lives for ever, lives after the body has become dust; it rises through the clear air, up to the shining stars!”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
    tags: hans-christian-andersen, humans, soul, the-little-mermaid
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “At first she was overjoyed that he would be with her, but then she recalled that human people could not live under the water, and he could only visit her father's palace as a dead man.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
    tags: ariel, the-little-mermaid
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    William Shakespeare
    “Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: greatness
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    William Shakespeare
    “Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: humor, shakespeare
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    William Shakespeare
    “If music be the food of love, play on;
    Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
    The appetite may sicken, and so die.
    That strain again! it had a dying fall:
    O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
    That breathes upon a bank of violets,
    Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
    'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
    O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
    That, notwithstanding thy capacity
    Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
    Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
    But falls into abatement and low price,
    Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
    That it alone is high fantastical.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: music, romance, unrequited-love
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    William Shakespeare
    “Journeys end in lovers meeting,
    Every wise man's son doth know.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: destination, destiny, journeys, lovers, meetings
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is better.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: love
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    William Shakespeare
    “I say, there is no darkness
    but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than
    the Egyptians in their fog.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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    William Shakespeare
    “In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
    None can be called deformed but the unkind:
    Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil
    Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
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    William Shakespeare
    “Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”
    ― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
    tags: clown, feste, fool
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  • #30
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
    45299 likes



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