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Emotion Quotes
"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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"But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?"
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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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"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
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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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"I may not be perfect, but I am worthy."
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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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"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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"I might say something in Spanish; it all depends on how I'm feeling, what the situation is."
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"I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me."
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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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"Love and hate when stretched to their extremes blind reasoning."
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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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"Give mea moon-blanket nightto keep me warma long-gone smileto comfort mea pair of rain-blue eyesto haunt mea simple soul...to love me."
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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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"It made my blood boil so hot, my brain stopped working right."
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"Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh."
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"Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it."
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"I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."
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"When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings."
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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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