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Emotion Quotes
"Underneath the sky, so void of light, the rain soaked me through. I held on to the railing and felt calm, even content, and then he had to reach through the dark, raise my temperature and make my heart beat a little bit faster. Not very gallant I should say...especially so close to bedtime. Friend or not, should he rob me of sleep, I'll be sure to take his."
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"Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It's a look that no human eyes should ever have."
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"We often try to see the reflections of the people who left us, in the people who come to stay with us....And in the course of doing so, we often try to change them to someone who they are not. And we often end up turning them into the pieces of same shattered mirror that used to hurt us before they came."
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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 wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."
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"Offend her and she knows not to forgive Oblige her and she'll hate you while you live."
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"When you smile, I become unconscious and I cannot open my eyes. Where is the justice!"
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"Resentments make even the best of us feel superior."
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"Vronsky saw nothing and no one. He felt himself as a king, not because she had made an impression on Anna-he did not yet believe that-but because the impression she had made on him gave him happiness and pride."
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"If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity."
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"That would be the greatest misfortune of all! - To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! - Do not wish me such an evil."
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"A strange sense of loss came over him. He felt that Dorian Gray would never again be to him all that he had been in the past. Life had come between them.... His eyes darkened, and the crowded, flaring streets became blurred to his eyes. When the cab drew up at the theatre, it seemed to him that he had grown years older."
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"Whate'er we leave to God God does and blesses us."
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"And I realized that I'd tolerated him this long because of self-doubt."
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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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"To hide feelings when you are near crying is the secret of dignity."
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"He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream."
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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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"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."
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"I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding- certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
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"She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose!"
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"Even as I hold you, I am letting you go."
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"Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it. When I leave town now I never tell my people where I am going. If I did, I would lose all my pleasure. It is a silly habit, I daresay, but somehow it seems to bring a great deal of romance into one's life."
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"If I can make you feel the same way that I feel about my product or service we'll have a meaningful conversation about it and how it can help. The trouble is that most sales people don't feel anything. Nothing at all."
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"You can miss a person you've never known."
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"He suffered from an unlucky faculty-common to many men, especially Russians-the faculty of seeing and believing in the possibility of good and truth, and at the same time seeing too clearly the evil and falsity of life to be capable of taking a serious part in it."
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"Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage."
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"I never had any preference for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing."
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"Let me tell you something about me. I love vengeance like normal people love sunsets and long walks on the beach. I eat vengeance with a spoon like it's honey. In fact, I may not even be a real person, but just a vow of vengeance made flesh."
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"When people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew..."
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