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Emotion Quotes
"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"
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"What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp."
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"It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another."
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"Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward."
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"I was on my face. I heard the count from one to 10. I kept telling myself that I had to get up, but I couldn't move. I couldn't make myself move. It was the strangest feeling."
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"There is something great and terrible about suicide."
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"I've had this sneaking feeling throughout the game that it's there to be won."
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"Kindness is an act to transform lives."
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"I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling."
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"A woman finds the natural lay of the land almost unconsciously; and not feeling it incumbent on her to be guide and philosopher to any successor, she takes little pains to mark the route by which she is making her ascent."
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"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."
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"I was so much in the habit of having Albertine with me, and now I suddenly saw a new aspect of Habit. Hitherto I had regarded it chiefly as an annihilating force which suppresses the originality and even the awareness of one's perceptions; now I saw it as a dread deity, so riveted to one's being, its insignificant face so incrusted in one's heart, that if it detaches itself, if it turns away from one, this deity that one had barely distinguished inflicts on one sufferings more terrible than any other and is then as cruel as death itself."
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"There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy."
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"So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked."
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"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."
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"These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily."
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"When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."
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"Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness it is a sign of emotional failure."
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"Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous."
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"How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is."
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"why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives."
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"As if this great outburst of anger had purged all my ills, killed all my hopes, I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world- and finding it so much like myself, in fact so fraternal, I realized that I'd been happy, and that I was still happy. For the final consummation and for me to feel less lonely, my last wish was that there should be a crowd of spectators at my execution and that they should greet me with cries of hatred."
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