Great Throughts Treasury

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Emile Zola

Art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

Eternal | Giving | Love | Lying |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

That Love is all there is, is all we know of Love.

Love |

Émile Souvestre

Sullen tempers are excited by the patience of their victims.

Love | Mystery |

Emile Zola

Angelique, with both hands open, lying limply on her knees, was giving herself. And Felicien remembered the evening on which she had run barefoot through the grass, so adorable that he had pursued her, and whispered in her ear, I love you. And he understood full well that only now had she replied, with the same cry, I love you. And he understood full well that only now had she replied, with the same cry, I love you, the eternal cry that had finally emerged from her wide-open heart. I love you... Take me, carry me away, I am yours.

Care | Cause | Crime | Day | Disgrace | Earth | Exploit | God | Important | Life | Life | Love | Mother | Nature | Pain | Suffering | Tears | World | God | Vice |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

How happy is the little stone that rambles in the road alone, and doesn't care about careers, and exigencies never fears; whose coat of elemental brown a passing universe put on; and independent as the sun, associates or glows alone, fulfilling absolute decree in casual simplicity.

Hope | Simplicity | Work | Happiness |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

For my companions — the Hills — Sir — and the Sundown — and a Dog — large as myself, that my Father bought me — They are better than Beings — because they know — but do not tell.

Love |

Emile Zola

Speculation, speculation!' she [Caroline Hamelin] mechanically repeated, struggling with her doubts. Ah! the idea of it fills my heart with disturbing anguish.

Better | God | Happy | Love | Talking | Will | God | Child | Think |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious.

Hope | Love |

Émile Souvestre

Contemptuous pride of knowledge.

Work |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

I can wade Grief -- Whole Pools of it -- I'm used to that -- But the least push of Joy Breaks up my feet -- And I tip -- drunken -- Let no Pebble -- smile -- 'Twas the New Liquor -- That was all!

God | Love | God |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

And cried for mamma, at every turn'-I added, 'and trembled if a country lad heaved his fist against you, and sat at home all day for a shower of rain.-Oh, Heathcliff, you are showing a poor spirit! Come to the glass, and I'll let you see what you should wish. Do you mark those two lines between your eyes, and those thick brows, that instead of rising arched, sink in the middle, and that couple of black fiends, so deeply buried, who never open their windows boldly, but lurk glinting under them, like devil's spies? Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing, and always seeing friends where they are not sure of foes-Don't get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet, hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers.' 'In other words, I must wish for Edgar Linton's great blue eyes, and even forehead,' he replied. 'I do - and that won't help me to them.' 'A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad,' I continued, 'if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. And now that we've done washing, and combing, and sulking - tell me whether you don't think yourself rather handsome? I'll tell you, I do. You're fit for a prince in disguise. Who knows, but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen, each of them able to buy up, with one week's income, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange together? And you were kidnapped by wicked sailors, and brought to England. Were I in your place, I would frame high notions of my birth; and the thoughts of what I was should give me courage and dignity to support the oppressions of a little farmer!

Love | Strength |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

I care nothing in comparison with papa. And I'll never -- never--oh, never while I have my senses, do an act or say a word to vex him. I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself.

Doubt | Love | Mother |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

I hasped the window; I combed his black long hair from his forehead; I tried to close his eyes-to extinguish, if possible, that frightful, life-like gaze of exultation, before any one else beheld it. They would not shut; they seemed to sneer at my attempts, and his parted lips and sharp, white teeth sneered too!

Earth | Work |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

I went about my house hold duties, convinced that the Grange had but one sensible soul in its walls, and that lodged in my body.

Angels | Business | Heart | Heaven | Love | Man | Thought | Will | Business | Thought |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

We'll see the same face of the wind toll. Does he also distorted in any other month of the two trees, destroying Was it? Heathcliff

Love |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Angels | Business | Heart | Love | Man | Thought | Will | Business | Thought |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

Today I will not seek the shadowy region; its unsustaining vastness waxes drear; and visions rising, legion after legion, bring the unreal world too strangely near.

Change | Eternal | Little | Love | Mind | Pleasure | Will |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

Winter is not here yet. There’s a little flower, up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist. Will you clamber up and pluck it to show papa?

God | Heart | Love | Nothing | Right | Satan | Soul | Will | God | Forgive |

Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell

You talk of her mind being unsettled - how the devil could it be otherwise, in her frightful isolation? And that insipid, paltry creature attending her from duty and humanity! From pity and charity. He might as well plant an oak in a flower-pot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

Chance | Work |

Emma Goldman

In its mad passion for power, the Communist State even sought to strengthen and deepen the very ideas and conceptions which the Revolution had come to destroy. It supported and encouraged all the worst antisocial qualities and systematically destroyed the already awakened conception of the new revolutionary values.

Love |