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Emotion Quotes
"Please try not to need me. That's the worst bait of all to a lonely man."
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"And I'd be willing to bet that you were great at it, if only because you have to love something before you can hate it."
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"I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song."
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"I've never outgrown that feeling of mild pride, of acceptance, when children take your hand."
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"It didn't have a name. Animals don't normally bother with them."
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"It gives a fella relief to tell, but it jus' spreads out his sin."
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"But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards stalking the storm, with Death opening the door to a luge chute and inviting me to go for a bobsled ride, I didn't have time to put on a victim suit and tell the woeful tale of my sorrowful childhood. Neither time nor the inclination."
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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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"Words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ..."
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"As yet hath his knowledge not learned to smile, and to be without jealously ; as yet hath his gushing passion not become calm in beauty."
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"They wouldn't beat him up. They wouldn't break his ribs. He knew that. But they had other ways of breaking him - with silence, with disappointment, with disapproval."
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"All the bad things happen to us when we are alone."
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"The worst enemy in life is resentment."
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"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"
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"Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us."
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"Bodily haste and exertion usually leave our thoughts very much at the mercy of our feelings and imagination."
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"He spent the afternoon alone in the streets."
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"One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior."
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"I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room."
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"Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander along the streets and the squares and the paths by the canal, absently sensing the lips of dampness through my worn soles, I carry proudly my ineffable happiness. The centuries will roll by, and schoolboys will yawn over the history of our upheavals; everything will pass, but my happiness , dear, my happiness will remain,in the moist reflection of a street lamp, in the cautious bend of stone steps that descend into the canal's black waters, in the smiles of a dancing couple, in everything with which God so generously surrounds human loneliness."
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"I am not surprised of your goodbye, breaking heart and leaving behind; maybe these are what angels do for fun."
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"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."
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"Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely-perhaps never-furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you've ruined both our lives."
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