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Emotion Quotes
"The taste of love is always amazing, even when it's bitter."
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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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"And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt."
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"Wherever the responsibility lies, shame creates a solid and terrible feeling of unworthiness that resides in our bodies: the storehouse of the memories of our acts, real or imagined, and the secrets we keep about them."
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"There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!"
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"When the heart is dry the eye is dry."
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"... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive."
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"He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler."
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"That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"
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"I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings."
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"There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget."
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"He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream."
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"Close your eyes, forget everything that hurts you and dream love, kindness and compassion."
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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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"Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives."
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"He did not seek to efface pain in forgetfulness, he sought to elevate it and to dignify it with hope. He would say, "Be careful how you turn to the dead. Don't think of the rotting. Hold your gaze and you will see the living light of your dearly loved departed up above in heaven."
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"I'm trying to make some sense out of the phrase "Everything happens for a reason," and I think I've figured out what the reason is - to pissed me off."
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"One should hold fast one's heart; for when one letteth it go, how quickly doth one's head run away!"
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"She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had."
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"Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.' I read that in a book somewhere and it's stuck in my head. Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not true. More likely, the young and the old are lonely in different ways, in their own ways..."
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"Clean your tears and stop crying, you are not the only one with a broken heart."
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"Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy."
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"There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness."
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"In today's world, it is tempting to follow suit and artificially numb the emotions you don't want while inducing the ones that you do want. The problem is that pushing pleasure into your veins will not get you out of quicksand, nor will blocking pain bring you relief. The solutions do not lie in the world of emotions, but rather in the world of thoughts."
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