To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.
Charlotte Brontë · Jane on her marriage to Rochester after ten years, in the novel's last chapter; gay here means cheerful.
Charlotte Brontë · Jane on her marriage to Rochester after ten years, in the novel's last chapter; gay here means cheerful.
More from Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë · Rochester pleading with Jane to stay after she has learned he is already married; she loves him and leaves anyway.
Charlotte Brontë · Rochester's proposal to Jane under the chestnut tree at Thornfield, which she at first takes for mockery because she believes he means to marry Blanche Ingram.
Charlotte Brontë · Rochester to Jane after the wedding is stopped, when she asks how he can speak of his wife with such hatred and he answers that illness could never make him turn from Jane.
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W. Somerset Maugham · Philip Carey to Norah, who has just said she always knew he loved her less than she loved him.
Leo Tolstoy · The source reads: “To get rid of an enemy, one must love him, as it is also said in the "Teaching of the twelve apostles."” · A diary entry of 14 September 1896 at Yasnaya Polyana, citing the early Christian Teaching of the Twelve Apostles.
Vladimir Nabokov · The source reads: “I think it's all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” · Answering a BBC interviewer at Zermatt in July 1962 who asked whether writing a memory down makes it fade.
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