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Emotion Quotes
"Amaranta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bitter, suddenly became clear to her in the final analysis as the most tender woman who had ever existed, and she understood with pitying clarity that the unjust tortures to which she had submitted Pietro Crespi had not been dictated by a desire for vengeance, as everyone had thought, nor had the slow martyrdom with which she had frustrated the life of Colonel Gerineldo Márquez been determined by the gall of her bitterness, as everyone had thought, but that both actions had been a mortal struggle between a measureless love and an invincible cowardice, and that the irrational fear that Amaranta had always had of her own tormented heart had triumphed in the end."
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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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"He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was."
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"If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions."
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"True hearts have eyes and ears, no tongues to speak; they hear and see, and sigh, and then they break."
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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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"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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"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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"What a sad pair we are," she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings."
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"Only one who loves can remember so well."
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"Feelings are feelings. They don't have dumb or smart labels."
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"Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you."
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"It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows."
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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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"The angers between women will not kill us if we can articulate them with precision, if we listen to the content of what is said with at least as much intensity as we defend ourselves agains the manner of saying. When we turn from anger we turn from insight, saying we will accept only the designs already known, deadly and safely familiar. I have tried to learn my anger's usefulness to me, as well as its limitations."
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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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"She is not with me,this grief is not bigger then this happiness that she is with her choice."
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"The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness."
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"We should not fail to hide our love for the one who fails to hide hatred."
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"She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had."
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"If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!"
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"It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.''Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater."
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"Only people of a certain disposition are frightened of being alone for the rest of their lives at twenty-six, we were of that disposition."
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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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"May i could Alive if my heart was broken But it has been murdered."
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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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"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."
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"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."
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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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"Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you."
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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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