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"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
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"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?"
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"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."
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"Learn to forgive others so that you can release yourself from being held captive by the very negative thoughts around you."
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"If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling you get when you see ducks covered in crude oil."
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"If you are angry for one second, it leaves you with only fifty-nine seconds of happiness."
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"Anger has great strength, but no brains. Greed has many hands, but no heart. Fear has many titles, but no honor. Hate has many forms, but no soul."
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"Cry when you must. It relieves the soul of all pain."
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"Inner turbulence leads to anger."
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"My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept."
Emotional

"My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations."
Family

"I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them."
Life

"But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance."
Vision

"Often, before returning home, I would take a long and roundabout way and pass by the peaceful ramparts from where I had glimpses of other provinces, and a sight of the distant country."
Home

"I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the family pew where we had assembled for so many years; and apart from that reason I hold it dear because it is associated in my memory with my mother."
Family

"Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine."
Time

"Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations."
Science

"It seems to me that it will be very wearisome to be a man."
Man

"The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands."
Nature
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