If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single… - Charlotte Brontë

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If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.

Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, who first published her work under the pseudonym Currer Bell.

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Alternative Names: Tree • Florian Wellesley • Lord Charles Albert • Captain Tree • Charles Wellesley • Charlotte Bronte • Currer Bell • Karlotta Bronte • Douro • Mrs. A. B. Nicholls • Charlotte Nicholls • Sharlotta Bronte • Mrs. Arthur Bell NichollsMrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls

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The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

Against slavery all right thinkers revolt, and though torture be the price of resistance, torture must be dared: though the only road to freedom lie through the gates of death, those gates must be passed; for freedom is indispensable.

If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed. - Charlotte Brontë

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