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Katabasis
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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.
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“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
“You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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