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Emotion Quotes
"He was not prepared to deal with my mistake, thought Jane, and he did not understand the suffering his response would cause me. He is innocent of wrong -doing, and so am I. We shall forgive each other and go on. It was a good decision, and Jane was proud of it. The trouble was, she couldn't carry it out. Those few seconds in which parts of her mind came to a halt were not trivial in their effect on her. There was trauma, loss, change; she was not now the same being that she had been before. parts of her had died. Parts of her had become confused, out of order...She discovered, as many a living being had discovered, that rational decisions are far more easily made than carried out."
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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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"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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"A tearless heart is a callous heart."
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"I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting."
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"I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day-mock me horribly!"
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"If only it were possible to love without injury " fidelity isn't enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again " I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower."
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"I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong with me. Just tell me how to be different in a way that makes sense."
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"Talking about my fears to others feeds it."
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"I often fear to talk so occasionally I express my opinions and my love in writing."
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"In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends."
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"I Have Confidence in Love, And Most of the Time I doubt it."
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"What have we all got to expect that we allow ourselves to be so lined with disappointment?"
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"The worst moments are when my entire family is in the same room. With the people I should love the most surrounding me, I feel the most alone."
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"I wasn't used to be these weak before. But the day I saw you, it felt like somebody was punching me very hard on my chest. It was hard to breathe, it was hard to sleep. With your name echoing in my mind all the time. Like somebody was singing a song to me, that no one else heard. It was the first time I realised how beautiful it is to be weak."
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"In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed."
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"Pleasure awakens the body, wisdom awakens the mind, joy awakens the heart, and love awakens the soul."
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"Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is."
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"In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational."
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"Jealousy from a love affair is something even God can admit."
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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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"When you stand next to beauty and know you're not, you either feel inferior or you're thankful for the ones who saw you and loved you anyway."
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"Pride is born as a mountaintop on a valley, but dies as an abyss in which it is too deep and too dark to see the better."
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"Being compassionate can be an exciting exercise of embracing life if you let it be."
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"... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct..."
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"I couldn't help but think about school and everything else ending. I liked standing just outside the couches and watching them-it was a kind of sad I didn't mind, and so I just listened, letting all the happiness and the sadness of this ending swirl around in me, each sharpening the other. For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way."
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"There are times in life when we need to allow a sad memory to run its course."
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"Hell's holy stars and freaking stones shit bells."
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"And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends-those were the fascinating things in life."
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"No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy."
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