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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world.
2 The last was an awful blank: something like the world when the deluge was gone by.
3 I wondered why moralists call this world a dreary wilderness: for me it blossomed like a rose.
4 Impossible to reply to this in the affirmative: my little world held a contrary opinion: I was silent.
5 My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven.
6 I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.
7 ; and I would wait to be assured she had come into the world alive before I assigned to her all that property.
8 He is rather peculiar, perhaps: he has travelled a great deal, and seen a great deal of the world, I should think.
9 Somehow, now that I had once crossed the threshold of this house, and once was brought face to face with its owners, I felt no longer outcast, vagrant, and disowned by the wide world.
10 The ---th regiment are stationed there since the riots; and the officers are the most agreeable men in the world: they put all our young knife-grinders and scissor merchants to shame.
11 They affirmed that she had even divined their thoughts, and had whispered in the ear of each the name of the person she liked best in the world, and informed them of what they most wished for.
12 It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me down at a place called Whitcross; he could take me no farther for the sum I had given, and I was not possessed of another shilling in the world.
13 Some years older than I, she knew more of the world, and could tell me many things I liked to hear: with her my curiosity found gratification: to my faults also she gave ample indulgence, never imposing curb or rein on anything I said.
14 It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.
15 Farther off were hills: not so lofty as those round Lowood, nor so craggy, nor so like barriers of separation from the living world; but yet quiet and lonely hills enough, and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion I had not expected to find existent so near the stirring locality of Millcote.
16 I can now conjecture readily that this streak of light was, in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern carried by some one across the lawn: but then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world.
17 My world had for some years been in Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.
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