

“I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.”
― Villette
― Villette

“I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.”
― Villette
― Villette

“The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.”
― Villette
― Villette

“To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.”
― Villette
― Villette
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