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Emotion Quotes
"I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it."
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"Hatred seems to operate on the same glands as love it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?"
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"Oh, here we are at the bridge. I'm going to shut my eyes tight. I'm always afraid going over bridges. I can't help imagining that perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they'll crumple up like a jackknife and nip us. So I shut my eyes. But I always have to open them for all when I think we're getting near the middle. Because, you see, if the bridge did crumple up I'd want to see it crumple. What a jolly rumble it makes! I always like the rumble part of it. Isn't it splendid there are so many things to like in this world?"
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"She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it's to tell her that something bad has happened."
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"Life's harrowing echo only to be faded into exiled loneliness."
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"Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests."
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"Feeling means your dealing means your healing"
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"When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us."
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"To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That's all right. I like to have my heart broken."
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"Fear--who cares?"
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"All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder-either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity."
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"For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty.Now I am pretty lonely."
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"I had embraced you...long before i hugged you."
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"But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself."
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"I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death."
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"Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."
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"It is the same in life; the heart changes, and that is our worst misfortune; but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.Lygiai taip gyvenime keiAiasi ir mA«sA3 A¡irdis, ir tai skaudA3⁄4iausia; taAiau patiriame ta skausma tik skaitydami knygas, vaizduotA-je; tikrovA-je jos keitimasis, kaip ir kai kuriA3 gamtos reiA¡kiniA3 vyksmas yra toks lA-tas, kad nors ir galime konstatuoti kiekviena atskira bA«sena, paties keitimosi pajusti nepajA-giame."
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"You have to understand what you're missing before you can really feel a loss."
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"Hatred comes from the heart contempt from the head and neither feeling is quite within our control."
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"But then Mason touches my neck, to the spot on it where the cut from that night has since healed, and I pull away.He was right, after all; it didn't leave a scar, though part of me wishes it had. At least I'd have some evidence, some justification of this permanence. Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them."
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"All this time I had never been able to consider my own situation, nor could I do so yet. I had not the power to attend to it. I was greatly dejected and distressed, but in an incoherent wholesale sort of way. As to forming any plan for the future, I could as soon have formed an elephant. When I opened the shutters and looked out at the wet wild morning, all of a leaden hue; when I walked from room to room; when I sat down again shivering, before the fire, waiting for my laundress to appear; I thought how miserable I was, but hardly knew why, or how long I had been so, or on what day of the week I made the reflection, or even who I was that made it."
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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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"All our sentiments - religious, romantic or any other - are born in the neurons."
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"Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jilted lover."
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