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“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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“My idea of good company...is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.'
'You are mistaken,' said he gently, 'that is not good company, that is the best.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

tags: anne-eliot, good-company, jane-austen, persuasion

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“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, ideal-woman, identity, image, independence, integrity, love, men, realism, romance, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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“I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

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“Others pointed out that another of Grandley’s pigs had been killed, and the piglets standing nearby were stained with blood.

Had they colluded? It was all too suspicious. They had best be safe and put the piglets on trial, too.

Due to their tender age, however, the piglets were granted clemency.”
― Jennifer Sherman Roberts, The Village Healer’s Book of Cures

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