“I've done no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy, and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself.”

— Emily Brontë , book Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff (Ch. XXXIV).
Wuthering Heights (1847)

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English novelist and poet 1818–1848

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