"If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results."
"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
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Source: 'Wuthering Heights' (1847) ch. 9
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