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Emotion Quotes
"Love gives with its eyes closed, hate destroys with its eyes open."
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"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
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"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company."
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"She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!"
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"No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories."
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"Rather than risking feeling disappointed, they're choosing to live disappointed."
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"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?"
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"For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?"
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"But the heart has its own memory and I have forgotten nothing."
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"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me."
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"I may not be perfect, but I am worthy."
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"Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder."
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"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."
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"Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter."
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"I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation 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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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
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"Take any emotion-love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions-if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them-you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. "But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment'."
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"I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it."
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"It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right."
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"The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections,They scorn the best I can do to relate them."
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"I never work better than when I am inspired by anger when I am angry I can write pray and preach well for then my whole temperament is quickened my understanding sharpened and all mundane vexations and temptations depart."
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"Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning."
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"I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid."
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"There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost."
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"Mammy was soon asleep, leaving Laila with dueling emotions: reassured that Mammy meant to live on, stung that she was not the reason. She would never leave her mark on Mammy's heart the way her brothers had, because Mammy's heart was like a pallid beach where Laila's footprints would forever wash away beneath the waves of sorrow that swelled and crashed, swelled and crashed."
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"Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it."
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