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Emotion Quotes
"Ester asked why people are sad."That's simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."
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"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."
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"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions."
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"Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity."
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"Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you."
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"I don't say goodbye very easily, Anna. Not gracefully or prettily.Goodbye tears your heart out and leaves it a feast for carrion birds who happen by."
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"Time alone can nourish or erode our emotions."
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"She stamped her foot. She hoped the greedy thing shit for a week. She hoped it shit its awful self insideout and backward, then fell into a crack and lost it's name and died alone and hollow-empty in the angry dark."
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"The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs."
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"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."
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"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."
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"To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling."
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"There is something great and terrible about suicide."
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"I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don't quite understand."
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"I am sorry to tell you this thing. Youu are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger."
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"He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord."
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"I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve."
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"Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness."
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"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."
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"...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking."
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"Sometimes the anxiety takes over and I can't seem to fathom the love he gives me."
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"Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own."
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"People's envy shows how unhappy they feel, their constant attention to the doings of others how bored they are."
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"I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression."
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"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."
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