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Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads were toward eternity.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
It was not death, for I stood up, and all the dead lie down; it was not night, for all the bells put out their tongues, for noon. It was not frost, for on my flesh I felt siroccos crawl, nor fire, for just my marble feet could keep a chancel cool. And yet it tasted like them all; the figures I have seen set orderly, for burial, reminded me of mine, as if my life were shaven and fitted to a frame, and could not breathe without a key; and I was like midnight, some, when everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground. But most like chaos,--stopless, cool, without a chance or spar,-- or even a report of land to justify despair.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Who has not found the heaven below will fail of it above. God's residence is next to mine, His furniture is love.
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
Look on the grave where thou must sleep thy last, and strongest foe; it is endurance not to weep, if that repose seem woe.
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Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you—haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
The world is for me a hideous collection of memorabilia telling me she lived and I have lost her.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
I'm now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
I learned to understand Cézanne much better and to see truly how he made landscapes when I was hungry. I used to wonder if he were hungry too when he painted; but I thought possibly it was only that he had forgotten to eat. It was one of those unsound but illuminating thoughts you have when you have been sleepless or hungry. Later I thought Cézanne was probably hungry in a different way.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
I do not follow you. Many times I do not follow myself with pleasure.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.