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Emotion Quotes
"Thus went my first Court Day.I think I'm going to puke."
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"My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive."
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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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"We are angrier with the sky than with our actions."
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"She was tired of being the one who cried."
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"To ease the pain, erase the anger."
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"Harry looked at him and you could see the murder come in his face. ... Harry didn't say anything, but you could see the killing go out of his face and his eyes came open natural again."
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"My anger tempted the act of delinquency and it felt good to dabble."
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"Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates."
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"After he had fully determined that the young man was at the bottom of this state of affairs, and that it all came from him, he Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had laboured so much upon his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve all life, all misery, and all misfortune into love; he looked within himself, and there he saw a spectre, Hatred."
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"Soul smiles through the lips of a happy face."
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"I've made him a monster by overloving. Lord knows, if hatred could make him human again."
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"I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy."
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"Despair is so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannekin in the window. It could be dispelled by the lights surrounding a tower. It would be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again. Meaningless, I almost said, aloud."
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"Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect."
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"In all my years, there was only one time I felt fear. That's when I had to send my Clarets away. I never experienced it again. Until you."
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"Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing."
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"There's been a boiling down of real emotion into a set pattern instead of individualism."
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"I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!"
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"Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you."
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"The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn."
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"Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot."
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"Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person."
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"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."
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"Why does anger makes people pretty? Rage doesn't. Rage makes you ugly, but a little anger, that just seems to add spice. One of nature's cruelties, or maybe it's to keep us from killing each other more often."
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"Men say," Liz reaches for her scissors, "'I can't endure it when women cry'--just as people say, 'I can't endure this wet weather.' As if it were nothing to do with the men at all, the crying. Just one of those things that happen."
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"Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough."
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"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
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"He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine."
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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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"She stopped then and turned her face toward him and the hateful wind."
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