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“Not a tie holds me to human society at this moment – not a charm or hope calls me where my fellow-creatures are– none that saw me would have a kind thought or good wish for me. I have no relative but the universal mother, nature: I will seek her breast and ask repose."

«Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?»

Damn I kinda wish I had read this book early on 😔💖🫠🫶🏻

“Feeling without jugement is a washy draught indeed; but jugement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.”

Mr Rochester hmmm 😔

«It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolut against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth.»

«Now I was left in my natural element; and beginning to feel the stirring of old emotions. It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone:it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me,but the reason for tranquility was no more.»

Woah 😧

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies;