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Emotion Quotes
"Her hatred glittered irresistibly. I could see it, the jewel, it was sapphire, it was the cold lakes of Norway."
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"He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love."
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"Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement."
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"I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it."
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"You're sad because you're sad.It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.Go see a shrink or take a pill,or hug your sadness like an eyeless dollyou need to sleep.Well, all children are sadbut some get over it.Count your blessings. Better than that,buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet.Take up dancing to forget."
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"I say good-bye to hope, but I also say goodbye to hope's disappointment."
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"Envy of other people shows how they are unhappy. Their continual attention to others behavior shows how they are boring."
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"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."
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"Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it."
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"That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself."
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"He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine."
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"Hatred is like fire-it makes even light rubbish deadly."
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"I obscenity in the milk of my shame."
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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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"Frustration is actually a self-served phenomenon, which happens due to no self-control or confidence."
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"It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself."
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"I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore."
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"Gula and Cali lie on their sides, their tiny adder-mouths showing the pink of their palates, their bodies throbbing with lustful and obscene dreams. The sky releases its burden of sun and color. Eyes closed, Catherine takes the long fall that carries her deep into herself, down where some animal stirs gently, breathing like a god."
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"Still am I the richest and most to be envied - I, the lonesomest one!"
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"My heart is lost, the beasts have eaten it."
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"Surrounding the two of them was the love they shared but also an overwhelming feeling of fear--fear of a future filled with the emptiness which would consume them if they remained apart. A fear of a future of being separated forever, and it gripped both of their hearts, demanding preventative action."
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"... but she was also bewilderingly lonely... Abra had lost her gift for being alone."
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"Pity is cruel. Pity destroys."
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"She laughed so easily when she was happy. But also when she was sad."
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"Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots."
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"For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve-like the soul's version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable."
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"Do you love tragedies and everything that breaks the heart?"
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"Himmlisch ist's wenn ich bezwungen Meine irdische Begier; Aber doch wenn's nich gelungen Hatt' ich auch recht huebsch Plaisir!Loosely translated:It is heavenly, when I overcomeMy earthly desiresBut nevertheless, when I'm not successful,It can also be quite pleasurable."
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