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Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear.

— Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (1847)

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Jane Eyre (1847)

If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Jane Eyre (1847)

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

The Professor (1857)

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Villette (1853)

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

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