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Emotion Quotes
"Every heart needs a cutting part sharper than a blade to stab agony."
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"My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect-simply a confession of failures."
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"You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion."
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"I would have thought this would make me feel better.. getting to be the one to leave and not the one left behind. But it didn't. Not at all."
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"They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but absence also dulls the memory and then we tend to forget who we were missing in the first place."
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"You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world."
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"The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself."
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"I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once."
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"This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something."
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"Your dress is thin, you have been dancing, you are heated." "Always preaching," retorted she; "always coddling and admonishing." The answer Dr. John would have given did not come; that his heart was hurt became evident in his eye; darkened, and saddened, and pained, he turned a little aside, but was patient."
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"Those things that take my breath away become the ocean-complex and deep-and I'm prone to drowning in beautiful things. Like you."
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"How exhausted I am suddenly!-though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling-almost-exhilarated."
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"I'm so sorry, I continue. And it's like the last word is a hurdle and I can't leap it, because something in the word snags my voice and suddenly I am giving everything up. I am letting my shoulders fall and I am feeling myself become the absence, feeling myself become that gasp and sob."
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"It's very difficult to stay in one's heart as it keeps beating."
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"Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts."
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"She sobbed the way she did everything else- with passion and excess."
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"Smile because it's infectious.Love because it's contagious."
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"... which would enable him to prolong for the time being, and to renew for one day more the disappointment, the torturing deception that must always come to him with the vain presence of this woman, whom he might approach, yet never dared embrace."
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"The needles they poke you with leaves a hole that closes in. But unkind words can make a hole that will never mend."
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"When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?"
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"Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere."
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"Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question."
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"She stood on the ledge of his smile and looked over the edge."
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"There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage."
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"What is love for, if not to intensify our affections-both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructiveto be bitter."
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"Joy gives you strength. Hope gives you fortitude. Faith gives you courage. Love gives you power."
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"My father was dead, my mother was dead, I would need for a while to watch for mines, but I would still get up in the morning and send out the laundry. I would still plan a menu for Easter lunch. I would still remember to renew my passport. Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life."
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"Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away."
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