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“I grieve to leave: I love this place-I love it, because I have lived in it a full and delightful life,- momentarily at least. I have not been trampled on. I have not been petrified. I have not been buried with inferior minds, and excluded from every glimpse of communion with what is bright and energetic and high. I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight in,- with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. I have known you; and it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking in the necessity of death.” — Charlotte Brontë
I grieve to leave: I love this place-I love it,
because I have lived in it a full and delightful life,-
momentarily at least.
I have not been trampled on.
I have not been petrified.
I have not been buried with inferior minds,
and excluded from every glimpse of communion with
what is bright and energetic and high.
I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence,
with what I delight in,- with an original, a vigorous, an
expanded mind.
I have known you; and it strikes me with terror and
anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for
ever.
I see the necessity of departure;
and it is like looking in the necessity of death.