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Emotion Quotes
"There's a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn't just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I'd found it."
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"Lisa Has a Heart of Diamond, She Never Thought She Would be Left in Silence again and again."
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"Me? You are laughing at me. Put your hand here. This has no theology.' I mocked myself while I made love. I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement."
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"Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none."
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"Oh yes, it hurts at times to be alone among the stars. But it hurts a lot more to be alone at a party. A lot more."
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"The one-eyed man watched them go, and then he went through the iron shed to his shack behind. It was dark inside. He felt his way to the mattress on the floor, and he stretched out and cried in his bed, and the cars whizzing by on the highway only strengthened the walls of his loneliness."
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"I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets."
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"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."
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"Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!"
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"It doesn't matter whether you are looking for a reason to be happy or sad, you will always find it."
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"I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with."
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"Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again."
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"How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself."
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"Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch."
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"I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm."
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"I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray."
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"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
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"If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed."
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"I am tired of days that are all the same."
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"I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!"
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"And lonely as it is that lonelinessWill be more lonely ere it will be less--A blanker whiteness of benighted snowWith no expression, nothing to express.They cannot scare me with their empty spacesBetween stars--on stars where no human race is.I have it in me so much nearer homeTo scare myself with my own desert places."
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"The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it."
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"Do not be disappointed if no one appreciates your true feelings, because they do not deserve them."
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"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."
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"When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone.And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me.The Cassie who kills."
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"My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world."
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"Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt."
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"No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief."
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"We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment."
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"Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me," thought the princess, and she turned away and went on reading. Julie, however, was not flattering her friend: indeed, the princess's eyes, large, deep, and luminous (sometimes it was as if rays of light came from them in sheaves), were so beautiful that very often, despite the unattractiveness of the whole face, those eyes were more attractive than beauty. But the princess had never seen the good expression of thise eyes, the expression they had in moments when she was not thinking of herself. As with all people, the moment she looked in the mirror, her face assumed a strained, unnatural, bad expression."
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"An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be."
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"I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know."
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"But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards stalking the storm, with Death opening the door to a luge chute and inviting me to go for a bobsled ride, I didn't have time to put on a victim suit and tell the woeful tale of my sorrowful childhood. Neither time nor the inclination."
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