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Quotation from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

“I, Lucy Snowe, plead guiltless of that curse, an overheated and discursive imagination”

Charlotte Brontë (spoken by Lucy Snowe)

Villette, Ch. II (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Charlotte Brontë

Describing little Paulina's homesickness at Bretton, Lucy claims for herself a sober, unimaginative temper that the rest of the book calls into question.

Citation: "I, Lucy Snowe, plead guiltless of that curse, an overheated and discursive imagination" — Charlotte Brontë, Villette, Ch. II (Project Gutenberg text). (id villette-q1)

Portrait: CBRichmond, George Richmond, Public domain.

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