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Emotion Quotes
"It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone."
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"Ghosts are some of the loneliest people you will ever meet."
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"Does it ever get easier?is there an end to these questions?do you have any answers?will you say them to me?can you stop this unraveling?will you bring me your closure?or am I the only onewho sees anymore?who sees . . .who sees . . .who sees?"
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"Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other."
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"It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly."
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"Frustration is actually a self-served phenomenon, which happens due to no self-control or confidence."
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"Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?"
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"Still, somewhere in the depths of ourselves we all harbor an ashamed, unsatisfied melancholy that quietly awaits a funeral."
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"In that cold autistic dark."
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"I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat..."
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"It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us."
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"Any time I let it, the weight of living creeps in and starts to drag her down. It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored. People talk to her, but it feels like they are outside a house, talking through the walls. There are friends, but they are people to spend time with, not people to share time with. There's a false beast that takes the form of instinct and harps on the pointlessness of everything that happens."
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"Envy is admiration laced with resentment."
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"The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the air had been shocked out of him. Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all. He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox."
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"I was alone again in the unquiet darkness."
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"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have for happiness where you find it, and not worry too much about other people. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a lifetime, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives."
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"I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across this lonely strip of amusements, each of us smarting from the betrayals of a loved one."
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"She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years."
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"Someone's senta loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing streama gain I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up."
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"Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one fine day surrenders all to love-or to hatred; himself, his house, his land, his memories."
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"Anger can be defeated by controlling our emotions without upsetting the nerves."
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"Sometimes I wanted to take a memory - one perfect memory - curl up in it, and go to sleep."
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"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."
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"They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me."
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"If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"
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"In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love."
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"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."
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"Just ask how I'm feeling, I want to say. Just ask and I may tell you.But no one does."
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