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Emotion Quotes
"The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone."
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"We do not have feelings which change us, but feelings that suggest to us the idea of change. Thus love does not purge us of selfishness, but makes us aware of it and gives us the idea of a distant country where this selfishness will disappear."
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"I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the rest of the world and it doesn't matter if everyone in the world remembers you as wonderful; but what matters is if at the end of your life you can say that you shared the best of yourself with the handful of people who are around you, that you gave the wonderful in you, to the people you love and who love you. Happiness never has and never will come from fame."
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"I'm running on hate."
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"I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour."
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"The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces."
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"Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned."
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"But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do."
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"Holding the eveningtremblingly close to mei weepinto the sun lettingthe burdenof hopelift off my chesti realizethis is what it meansto be free."
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"Some people have a thick skin and you don't. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world."
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"In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend."
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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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"Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony."
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"All theorieslike clichesshot to hell,all these small faceslooking upbeautiful and believing;I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believe but believe is agraveyard. we have narrowed it down tothe butcherknife and themockingbird wish usluck."
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"Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it."
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"If you think it ain't dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way, by yourself, in the night, you try it once - you'll see."
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"Silence is the music of the heart."
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"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."
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"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."
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"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
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