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Emotion Quotes
"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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"In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life."
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"If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?"
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"The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter."
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"Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I daresay, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life."
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"When you truly love yourself, you do not accept abusive relationships, because you know you deserve better."
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"Passion will warm you for days, infatuation will warm you for months, but love will set you on fire for a lifetime."
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"So many lives are in bitterness today not just because of how their pasts were abused, but how they think they were innocent."
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"Moments of love and compassion are the only immortal moments in human being's life! We humans are mortals with immortal moments!"
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"I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
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"So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians."
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"Frodo! Mr. Frodo, my dear!' cried Sam, tears almost blinding him. 'It's Sam, I've come!' He half lifted his master and hugged him to his breast."
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"Every moment you lose your temper, you lose a moment of opportunity to love."
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"One who loves lives a thousand years in one day, one who hates only lives one day in a thousand years."
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"Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions."
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"How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself."
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"There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage."
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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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"Joy gives you strength. Hope gives you fortitude. Faith gives you courage. Love gives you power."
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"But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't going anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return. Was that so depressing?Who knows? Maybe that was 'despair.' What Turgenev called 'disillusionment.' Or Dostoyevsky, 'hell.' Or Somerset Maugham, 'reality.' Whatever the label, I figured it was me."
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"Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions."
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"If you get too close to the sun, you will burn; if you get too far, you will freeze: this is how it is with passion."
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"Heredity provides for the modification of its own machinery."
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"Jealousy stings, envy poisons, anger harms, and hate murders."
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