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“I have for the first time found what I can truly love—I have found you.”

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Jane says this after Rochester proposes in the lamplight at Thornfield. Brontë has her build the sentence slowly, as though the discovery is arriving in her as she speaks it, which is why the page it comes from is quoted far more often than the proposal itself.

Source: Jane Eyre

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