I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have … - Charlotte Bronte

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Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.

Charlotte Bronte

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

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I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

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Rapidly, merrily, Life's sunny hours flit by, Gratefully, cheerily Enjoy them as they fly!

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

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He put his hand on his forehead and scoured the French department of his memory for a word. He knew it was in there. He'd put it in almost fifty years before and hadn't had cause to remove it. But for the life of him he couldn't find it.

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