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Emotion Quotes
"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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"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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"Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got."
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"Whenever I wish to pay my respect to you, my middle finger says, it must first."
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"For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering."
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"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."
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"His face was so ravaged, it was like looking at death itself. Except for the smooth, silvered part of it. By creeping degrees, his human hand lifted. He turned it over, showing a bloody palm. His cracked lips moved. Beloved.He could not say the word, but I knew it. So did his Fool."
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"Every role varies greatly, just as emotions vary greatly."
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"Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. It meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge."
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"In that cold autistic dark."
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"I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion."
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"My feelings towards Scott Card are pretty mixed. Politically, he and I are pretty far apart."
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"When you are madly in love with someone, even when sanity tries to rescue you, you wrestle it."
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"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."
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"Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world."
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"... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive."
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"And there was something so artless in this smile that I had to smile back."
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"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs, he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
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"What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers."
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"Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels, he thought..."
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"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."
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"When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday."
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