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Though this was no surprise: academia respected discipline, rewarded effort, but even more, it adored genius that didn’t have to try.
“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Reader, I married him.”
― Jane Eyre
― 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.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Life is worth living as long as there's a laugh in it.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
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