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Emotion Quotes
"Let tears gather in your eyes. You haven't tears enough for what you've done to me. Six more mortal years, seven, eight. I might have had that shape!' Her pointed finger flew at Madeleine, whose hands had risen to her face, whose eyes were clouded over. Her moan was almost Claudia's name. But Claudia did not hear her. 'Yes, that shape, I might have known what it was to walk at your side."
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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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"Love is something totally new every day, but pleasure is not, pleasure has continuity. Love is always new, and therefore it is its own eternity."
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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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"For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live."
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"Yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut."
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"I hate that. I hate kids like that so fugging much."
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"I must have confessed that the feelings, emotions and sentiments in my words are beyond my understanding."
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"Sometimes I think,I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel."
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"We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. Without intention, there will be no action."
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"You're not cross with me, though?" he said. She pulled her hand away and answered, "No, no, I'm never cross with anyone."
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"The heart is a generous muscle."
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"At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth."
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"That's why he hates you, because you didn't suffer when he tried to punish you."
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"Loneliness is a failure to appreciate others."
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"I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for 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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"Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!"
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"When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch."
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"To cry at will is not an easy accomplishment."
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"Feelings don't follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way."
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"Envy expresses itself through condemnation. The louder the condemnation the greater the envy."
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"The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely."
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"She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something."
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"I still do not understand why some people think they mean nothing to anyone, while their simple smile gives unlimited reasons for others to live."
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"I've always jumped on sentiment-and here I am being more sentimental than anybody. What idiots girls are! I've always thought so. I suppose I shall sleep with his photograph under my pillow, and dream about him all night. It's dreadful to feel you've been false to your principles."
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"Listen to the sadness,the echoes in my mind,the place where I usually hide,but now I cannot find.Why had it happened?What had I done?Where was I going?Now I'm on the run.Hiding from the echoes,the pounding in my ears,the beatings getting louder,it isn't death, I fear!"
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