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Emotion Quotes
"From early childhood his mother had taught him that to discuss in public a profound emotional experience-which, in the open air, immediately evanesces and fades, and, oddly, becomes similar to an analogous experience of one's interlocutor-was not only vulgar, but also a sin against sentiment."
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"When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings."
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"The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple."
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"I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible."
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"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."
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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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"The hearts that never lean must fall."
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"There's still a little girl inside every grown woman who would love to be able to fall into the arms of her mother and cry her eyes out every now and then."
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"I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be."
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"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs, he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
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"It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions."
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"Hatred is about possession. It is all-consuming, cruel, and vainglorious. When love is allowed to fester, it becomes twisted and corrupt; it settles deep in the heart...and metastasizes, sending its dark roots through the body to raze all that stands in its way. Love is chaste and pure. Love is banal....No, hatred has infinitely more possibilities."
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"To ease the pain, erase the anger."
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"Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free."
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"I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing."
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"There is no bitterness like that of man who finds out he has been believing in a ghost."
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"When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart."
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"Innocent and joyfulI take your handfor I know you judge not,you simply understand.You are my companionon this voyage of discovery,singing sweet soft musicto the universe inside of me."
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"Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence."
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"You knew I was confused, tormented, but you enticed me - led me on..."
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"I'm running on hate."
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"And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart."
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"Crying adds something: crying is you, plus tears."
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"This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love."
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"I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."
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