.. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath - a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being..
Emily Bronte
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
souls made love
I'll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
choice nature choose walk
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
dreams life mind ideas water wine
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?
friendship dark wild bloom love
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.
heart deep day affection sea love
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
people sorrow sad proud
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them
tyranny crush
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
effort silence results obscurity work
.. He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same..
handsome souls made love
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree
autumn bliss tree
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!
earth mad drive ghosts find leave abyss form
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!
life live soul mad drive find leave abyss form god
mind delight pleasure eternal source love visible
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
deeds people honest
I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.
dreams life mind
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