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    Charlotte Brontë
    “It would not be wicked to love me."
    "It would to obey you.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Reader, I married him.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    2255 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: adoration, fidelity, love
    1915 likes

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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
    13954 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: becoming-jane, flirting, sex
    1432 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: eyes, interpretation, mind, soul
    1291 likes

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    Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
    “Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: depression, life, loneliness, sunshine
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    There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling
    “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 Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: friendship, happiness, inspirational
    1119 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women
    716 likes

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

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “It is not violence that best overcomes hate -- nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    361 likes

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    “He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.”
    ― Movie, Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre
    tags: love-inspirational-identity
    344 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    169 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Your will shall decide your destiny.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: destiny, will
    166 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “He made me love him without looking at me.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: love
    145 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: friends, life
    100 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    96 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: jane-eyre, mr-rochester
    73 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “You are human and fallible.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: frailty, human
    74 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: final-words, forgiveness, love-and-hate
    39 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Remorse is the poison of life.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.”
    ― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
    20 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    tags: charlotte-brontë, sphinx
    18 likes

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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “I turned my lips to the hand that lay on my shoulder. I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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    Charlotte Brontë
    “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.”
    ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
    13 likes



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