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Life is still life, whatever its pangs our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.

Charlotte Bronte

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Charlotte Bronte
Age: 38 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 21
Died: 1855
Died: March 31
Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
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Sharlotta Bronte
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Hsia-lo-ti Po-lang-tʻe
Still
Please
Withdrawn
Must
Eyes
Silenced
Life
Though
Console
Whatever
Pleases
Eye
Prospect
Sound
Wholly
Use
Remain
Consoles
Stills
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