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This reads as a careful admission that loneliness was present, but had become familiar enough not to feel crushing. It can be taken to mean that isolation may wound without always breaking a person, especially when solitude has been lived with for a long time. It lands when someone describes being alone in a room, yet still functioning because the feeling is old and known.
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About Charlotte Brontë
English novelist and poet
Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet. Born Charlotte Nicholls, she is best known as the elder sister of Emily, Anne and Branwell Brontë, and for her novel Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre first appeared under the pen name Currer Bell and was a major success when it was published. It has since come to be regarded as a classic of English literature.
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