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Emotion Quotes
"Silence is the music of the heart."
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"From early childhood his mother had taught him that to discuss in public a profound emotional experience-which, in the open air, immediately evanesces and fades, and, oddly, becomes similar to an analogous experience of one's interlocutor-was not only vulgar, but also a sin against sentiment."
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"Believe me, the loss of hope is far worse than the loss of limbs."
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"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers."
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"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far."
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"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."
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"It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in."
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"In order to feel contempt, you generally need to cherish some kind of feelings."
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"The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple."
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"I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible."
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"I've never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins. Some nights, watching you with other men on your jobs, I think it will drive me mad. (Bones)"
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"There was no helping her tears. For they would leave Po behind— She cried into his shoulder like a child. Ashamed of herself, for it was only a parting, and Bitterblue had not wept like this even over a death. ‘Don’t be ashamed,’ Po whispered. ‘Your sadness is dear to me. Don’t be frightened. I won’t die, Katsa. I won’t die, and we’ll meet again.’"
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"Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels."
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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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"The saddest noise in the world is that of a heart breaking."
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"The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome."
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"Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves."
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"Smiling a smile full of things restrained."
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"When the mainstay of one's world is taken away, it's only natural to cling to all the rest, to try desperately to keep things as close to the way they were as one can." He shook his head sorrowfully. "But no one can ever go back to yesterday."
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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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"It was one thing to accept I couldn't have Dimitri. It was something entirely different to realize someone else could."
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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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"She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"
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"Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence."
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"The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality."
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"Crushed sandstone sifted through Caleb's fingers, insubstantial as dust. A breeze caught the debris mid-fall and spirited it away before it could join the ashes blanketing the ground. He stopped in the middle of what had once been a street, his arms pulled in at his sides, his fists balled in barely restrained fury."
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"I was so grateful to see Lissa okay that I missed what Eddie had already noticed. "You guys, where are Victor and Robert?"Lissa's face crumpled, and even Adrian looked grim. "Damn it," I said, needing no explanation.Lissa nodded, eyes wide with distraught. "We lost them."
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"I am infinitely yearningbrimmingand overflowingin wordsi discoverit's another wayfor meto be in tears."
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"He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was."
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"Be careful of your mood and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world."
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"Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions."
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"She felt as if she had somehow failed him and herself by allowing his mother's behavior to upset her. She should be above it; she should shrug it off as the ranting of a village woman; she should not keep thinking of all the retorts she could have made instead of just standing mutely in that kitchen. But she was upset, and made even more so by Odenigbo's expression, as if he could not believe she was not quite as high-minded as he had thought."
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"Remembering and forgiving can be contrary things."
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