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    Emily Brontë
    “Terror made me cruel . . .”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: ghosts, haunting, supernatural
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    Emily Brontë
    “She burned too bright for this world.”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: life
    2161 likes

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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
    1848 likes

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    Emily Brontë
    “You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: love
    388 likes

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    Emily Brontë
    “And wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: death-love
    20 likes

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    Emily Brontë
    “As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: different, fire, frost, lightning, moon, moonbeam, moonlight, opposites
    55 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “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
    tags: humor, love, romantic, women
    18046 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “One word from you shall silence me forever.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    378 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: humor
    48 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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    Jane Austen
    “You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own, than when you almost broke it eight years and a half ago.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
    tags: captain-wentworth
    370 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    tags: afterlife, compassion, life, religion
    1215 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “A loveless world is a dead world.”
    ― Albert Camus, The Plague
    37 likes

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  • #14
    Albert Camus
    “When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
    ― Albert Camus, The First Man
    1567 likes

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  • #15
    George Orwell
    “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    2693 likes

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    George Orwell
    “In the face of pain there are no heroes.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: 1984
    1758 likes

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  • #17
    Emily Dickinson
    “Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: love, morning
    1433 likes

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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep
    tags: horror
    114 likes

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    H.P. Lovecraft
    “I felt myself on the edge of the world; peering over the rim into a fathomless chaos of eternal night.”
    ― H.P. Lovecraft
    tags: dagon, lovecraft
    138 likes

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    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    ― Emily Dickinson
    tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
    8832 likes

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  • #21
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
    2739 likes

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  • #22
    Aristotle
    “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: patience
    1519 likes

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  • #23
    Aristotle
    “To perceive is to suffer.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: empathy, life, suffer, understanding
    1301 likes

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  • #24
    Aristotle
    “He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: fear, freedom
    1319 likes

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  • #25
    Aristotle
    “Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: fear
    183 likes

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  • #26
    Rebecca West
    “[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.”
    ― Rebecca West, The Harsh Voice
    tags: hurt, injury, salt, vulnerability, wounds
    56 likes



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