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Emotion Quotes
"Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told - told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything."
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"Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world's weight he had never chosen to bear."
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"To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow."
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"Love in the rain is better than hate in the sunshine."
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"The hunger for attention is usually a result of low self-esteem and the lack of unconditional self-love."
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"I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect."
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"Smile in such a nice way that you introduce yourself."
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"Life may become difficult when you are out of sync with your heart-felt desires."
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"I fear falling in love and understanding why."
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations of misery."
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"This didn't sound good. It sounded like the optimism was escaping from him."
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"Keep strong the bond of love."
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"A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment."
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"They had an ugly look to one as prone to disgust and fear as the changes of a few hours had made me."
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"It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible."
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"Bitterness leads to misery."
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"She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the invisible giants hurting her boy in some unimaginable fashion; of the incalculable amount of tenderness contained in the world; of the fate of this tenderness, which is either crushed or wasted, or transformed into madness; of neglected children humming to themselves in unswept corners; of beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer."
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"If you think about someone you've loved and lost, you are already with them. The rest is just details."
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"If I lose it now, I will lose you, too. I know that. I hate it."
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"Never be disappointing - you may wound me, but you must never be disappointing..."
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"I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his hand and squeezed it, then reluctantly let it go. She could feel the tears again, and she fought them back. 'But you don't want to keep me, either, do you?' To that, he had no response."
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"If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"
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"In a world spoiled by the obituary of attention and the dormancy of empathy, people are coming up short of authentic emotion. ['The upper lip must never tremble']"
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"And yet, even while they baffled him, they aroused within his heart a feeling he had never known before. When- which was not often, but sometimes happened- they burst into tears of utter frustration or despair, their tiny disappointments seemed to him more tragic than Man's long retreat after the loss of his Galactic Empire. That was something too huge and remote for comprehension, but the weeping of a child could pierce one to the heart.Alvin had met love in Diaspar, but now he was learning something equally precious, and without which love itself could never reach its highest fulfillment but must remain forever incomplete. He was learning tenderness."
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"You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel envy and then to swim in it, that envy will destroy you and the people around you. Envy is unlike anger. Envy is not a right wing nor a left wing, it is not on either end of the balancing beam. Nobody needs it and I can assure you that once you give yourself to it, you will be eaten up. Envy can even eat up nations, casting them up against each other and pull a whole nation down into an internal collapse."
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"Some days I feel like my worth is being reevaluated every five minutes."
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"Even as I hold you, I am letting you go."
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"Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery."
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"Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."
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"I dont hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I dont. I dont! I dont hate it! I dont hate it!"
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