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Emily Jane Brontë (/ˈbrɒnti/, commonly /-teɪ/; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She wrote under the pen name Ellis Bell.

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Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

Death, Endurance, Foe, Sleep, Strongest, Woe

He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

Drunk, Fall, Heaven, Lying, Peace, Said

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

Benign, Breathing, Round, Sky, Wind, Wondered

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

Everything, Minute, Minutes, Together, Together Again

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

Dead, Death, Dying, Life, Relic, Valued

I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

Country, Fled, Gone, Heather, Heathers

He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

Animal, Contrary, Firsts, Instead, Winning

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Grave, Kind, Like, Live, Love Betrayal, Soul

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

Moral, Poison, Presence, Virtuous

I have no pity! I have no pity! The more worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething, and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase of pain.

Crush, Energy, Pain, Teething

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

Blood, Broken, Finding, Pane, Terror, Useless

She burned too bright for this world.

Bright, Burned, This World, World

There is not room for Death, Nor atom that his might could render void: Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, And what Thou art may never be destroyed.

Art, Atom, Breath, Easter, Room, Rooms

You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!

Existence, Forget, Forget You, Know

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

People, Pride, Sad, Sorrow, Sorrows

Though earth and man were gone, And suns and universes ceased to be, And Thou wert left alone, Every existence would exist in Thee.

Earth, Gone, Men, Though, Wert

Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.

Ends, Enemy, Resort, Violence, Worse, Wound

Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper?

Alone, Cat, Mind, Temper, Watch, Watches

Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being.

Cold Mountain, Heathcliff, Love, Mind, Pleasure

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

Continue, Love, Passion, Remained, Romantic, Turn

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