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Emotion Quotes
"I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so that everything I touch is you. How foolish I was when you live in my toes so that everywhere I go there's you. How senseless of me to say you live in my heart when you breathe in my lungs, walk on my mind, and drink in my mouth. I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you."
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"Bitterness is captivity."
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"If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people."
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"Tears are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of compassion."
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"She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die."
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"There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things."
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"Glory had rehearsed angry outbursts in anticipation of his arrival. She began to hope he would come so she could tell him exactly what she thought."
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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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"I have laughedmore than daffodilsand cried more than June."
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"Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition."
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"It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored."
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"The worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter."
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"Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?"
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"It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire."
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"Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me."
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"I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much."
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"It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed."
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"For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood."
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"Strong anger can only make you weaker than you already are."
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"Count your blessings."
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"Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth."
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"... since I was still, and must for long remain, in that period of life when one has not yet separated the fact of this sensual pleasure from the various women in whose company one has tasted it, when one has not reduced it to a general idea which makes one regard them thenceforward as the variable instruments of a pleasure that is always the same. Indeed, that pleasure does not exist, isolated and formulated in the consciousness, as the ultimate object with which one seeks a woman's company, or as the cause of the uneasiness which, in anticipation, one then feels. Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself."
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"There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy."
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"She was just...hurt. And tired of feeling as if she wasn't good enough to officially mate with. It was no wonder her wolf was going insane."
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"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."
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"The closer you got to someone, the more it would destroy you when they were inevitably gone."
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"His absence seemed a solid thing, a burden I must carry in addition to my grief... Yet I knew I would continue to live. Sometimes that knowledge seemed the worst part of my loss."
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"These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily."
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"Souls of love breathlessly sailTowards our time when hours failTo cope with longing here we areChasing the speed of a falling starMiles and miles fleetly we goDown to the ocean, deeper the flowWaves now know their crushing tide Splashing between joy and pride."
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"Okay, let's recap.So I lost a few good things, but wait;There's other fish in the sea.And my heart's still here: the bait.It has a few cracksAnd a couple of shark bites,But it's alright.A bleeding heart is never one to wait in the water for long.I wonder what my next catch will be.."
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"And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space."
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