My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are abso…

Charlotte Bronte
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My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and a green flowery Eden in my brain; but without, I am perfectly aware, lies at my feet a rough tract to travel, and around me gather black tempests to encounter. ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2015). Jane Eyre, an Autobiography: Top 100 Classic Novels, p.393, 谷月社
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