“I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free… Why am I so changed? I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
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English novelist and poet 1818–1848Related quotes

letter to his friend Zapater, April 23, 1794; in Goya; Noticias biograficas, Francisco Zapater y Gomez, Zaragoza, 1868; first published in 'La Perseverencia', p. 53; as quoted in Francisco Goya, Hugh Stokes, Herbert Jenkins Limited Publishers, London, 1914, p. 203-204
1790s

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the World. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
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“If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.”
After Diogenes of Sinope who was lying in the sun, responded to a query by Alexander asking if he could do anything for him with a reply requesting that he stop blocking his sunlight. As quoted in "On the Fortune of Alexander" by Plutarch, 332 a-b

Ira Levinson, Chapter 5 Ira, p. 80
2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

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