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Emotion Quotes
"When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I'd do it all again to have the life I have now."
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"Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already."
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"Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates."
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"The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality."
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"We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus love does not purge us of selfishness, but makes us aware of it and gives us the idea of a distant country where this selfishness will disappear."
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"It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past."
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"Soul smiles through the lips of a happy face."
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"Brianna! Is Sam okay? Astrid cried."No. Drake tore him up. She wanted to sound tough, but the sobs came bubbling up and overtook her. "Oh, God, Astrid, he's hurt so bad.Astrid gasped and covered her hand with her mouth. Brianna put her arms around Astrid and sobbed into her hair."Is he going to die? Astrid asked, voice wobbly."No, I don't think so, Brianna said. She stood back and wiped her tears. "I gave him something for the pain. But he's messed up, Astrid."
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"I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the rest of the world and it doesn't matter if everyone in the world remembers you as wonderful; but what matters is if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the handful of people who are around you, that you gave the wonderful in you, to the people you love and who love you. Happiness never has and never will come from fame."
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"Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?"
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"It's for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn't go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can't shake the persistent, needling feeling that I've forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever."
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"He was on her mind but she doesn't let anyone stay for too long."
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"There is violence in this supposedly tender heart of mine."
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"People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself."
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"Celebration is an act of impressing sadistic someone residing in you."
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"I deserve it all. Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know--there's a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as its always done, and take everything from me--loved ones, property, everything--but it can't take that. Some day I'll lie down in it and forget it all, and my poor broken heart will be at rest."
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"For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?"
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"You are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression..."
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"I find myself thinking back to something I saw on the local news about a year ago. A teen football player had died in a car accident. The cameras showed all his friends after the funeral-these big hulking guys, all in tears, saying, "I loved him. We all loved him so much. I started crying, too, and I wondered if these guys had told the football player they loved him while he was alive, or whether it was only with death that this strange word, love, could be used. I vowed then and there that I would never hesitate to speak up to the people I loved. They deserved to know they gave meaning to my life. They deserved to know I thought the world of them."
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"...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking."
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"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?"
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"It is hard, she thought, it is hard for us to think of people who dislike us because none of us, in our heart, believes that we deserve the hatred of others."
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"Tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you."
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"He captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say."
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"If you feel all damp and lonely like a mushroom, find the thick, creamy soup of joyfulness and just dive into it in order to make life tastier."
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"AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!' he screamed.'So that's Sara,' I said.'Yes.''She seems nice."
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"Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the great heavy child's shoes Cosette could still almost have worn, so small was her foot, then the vest of very thich fustian, then the knitted petticoat, the the apron with pockets, then the wool stockings.... Then his venerable white head fell on the bed, this old stoical heart broke, his face was swallowed up, so to speak, in Cosette's clothes, and anybody who had passed along the staircase at that moment would have heard irrepressible sobbing."
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"I like music,' she said slowly, 'because when I hear it, I...I lose myself within myself if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once."
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"Vronsky meanwhile, in spite of the complete fulfilment of what he had so long desired, was not completely happy. He soon felt that the realization of his longing gave him only one grain of the mountain of bliss he had anticipated. That realization showed him the eternal error men make by imagining that happiness consists in the gratification of their wishes. When first he united his life with hers and donned civilian clothes, he felt the delight of freedom in general, such as he had not before known, and also the freedom of love-he was contented then, but not for long. Soon he felt rising in his soul a desire for desires-boredom. Involuntarily he began to snatch at every passing caprice, mistaking it for a desire and a purpose."
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"There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well."
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"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."
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"I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step."
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"My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over."
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"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour."
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"It may take practice to think more positively and more compassionately, but just as you must train a puppy to behave the way you want it to, you must train your mind to behave itself. Otherwise, like the puppy, your mind will just make a lot of messes."
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"One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible."
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