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Emotion Quotes
"I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters."
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"Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home.Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out in the evenings. It's cruel and unjust on my part, but let me commit that injustice. It's an agony for me at home. As soon as the sun disappears, my spirit begins to be weighed down by depression. What depression! Don't ask why. I myself don't know. I swear by God's truth I don't know. Here I'm in anguish, I go to the Lebedevs and there it's still worse; I return from there and here it's depression again, and so all night... Simply despair!"
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"I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!"
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"When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile."
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"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image."
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"Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone."
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"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones."
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"I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on."
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"But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling."
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"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it."
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"The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces."
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"The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality."
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"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
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"Adam's lips are set in a grime line. I can't tell if he's about to cry or about to punch the guard. For his sake, I hope it's the former. For you own, I hope the latter."
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"Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned."
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"If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again."
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"There's surprising relief and regeneration in finding ourselves within a moment of genuine grace, however small or temporary it may be."
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"Feelings are feelings. They don't have dumb or smart labels."
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"It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock."
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"Il me semble que je serais toujours bien la ou je ne suis pas.It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not."
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"It may be that actual tears have stained the tile floors or soaked into the carpets of such places. It may be that these tears can never be removed. And everywhere the odor of melancholy, that is the very odor of memory."
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"And I go home having lost her love. And write this book."
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"To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something impossible to recall in this or that case and difficult to define in general terms -- some careless bright and harsh trifle that had grazed a stretch of raw flesh."
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"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."
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"It is a mournful task to break the sombre attachments of the past."
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"I'll show you an imaginative re-creation, my fist imaginatively re-creating your fucken face for starters."
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