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" ..Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it make us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with a thorn in it's breast, singing it's heart out and dying. Because it has to, it's driven to. We can know what we do wrong even before we do it, but self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it. "
― , The Thorn Birds
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" The couple were thus revealed to me clearly: both removed their cloaks, and there was ‘the Varens,’ shining in satin and jewels,—my gifts of course,—and there was her companion in an officer’s uniform; and I knew him for a young roué of a vicomte—a brainless and vicious youth whom I had sometimes met in society, and had never thought of hating because I despised him so absolutely. On recognising him, the fang of the snake Jealousy was instantly broken; because at the same moment my love for Céline sank under an extinguisher. A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe. "
― , Jane Eyre
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" I will not swear, reader, that there was not something of repressed sarcasm both in the tone in which I uttered this sentence, and in the feeling that accompanied it. I had silently feared St. John till now, because I had not understood him. He had held me in awe, because he had held me in doubt. How much of him was saint, how much mortal, I cold not heretofore tell: but revelations were being made in this conference: analysis of his nature was proceeding before my eyes. I saw his fallibilities: I.comprehnded them. I understood that, sitting there where I did, on the bank of heath, and with that handsome form before me, I sat at the feet of a man, erring as I. The veil fell from his hardness and despotism. Having felt in him the presence of these qualities, I felt his imperfection, and took courage. I was with an equal-one with whom I might argue-one whom, if I saw good, I might resist. "
― , Jane Eyre
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" Es zinu, ko nozīmē veltīt sevi visu cilvēkam, kuru mīlu vairāk par visu pasaulē. Es uzskatu sevi par ārkārtīgi laimīgu — šī laime nav izsakāma vārdos, jo mēs dzīvojam viens otram. Neviena sieviete nekad nav bijusi tuvāka savam dzīvesbiedram kā es. Man nekad neapnīk mana Edvarda klātiene, tāpat kā viņam neapnīk mana klātiene. Mēs esam laimīgi apziņā, ka sirdis, kas pukst mūsu krūtīs, pukst tikai viena otrai; tāpēc mēs esam nešķirami. Būt kopā mums nozīmē justies tik brīviem kā vientulībā, tik priecīgiem kā sabiedrībā. Mēs sarunājamies visu dienu, jo mūsu sarunas patiesībā ir skaļas domas. Es uzticos viņam pilnīgi, un viņš tāpat uzticas man; mūsu raksturi lieliski saderas, tāpēc mūsu starpā valda pilnīga saskaņa. "
― , Jane Eyre