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Emotion Quotes
"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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"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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"Only ,a lonely heart Can tell What it meansTo be lonely."
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"We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have."
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"Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa."
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"There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings."
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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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"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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"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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"Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life."
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"We are angrier with the sky than with our actions."
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"To each, or about each, of his colleagues he had said at one time or other, something... something impossible to recall in this or that case and difficult to define in general terms -- some careless bright and harsh trifle that had grazed a stretch of raw flesh."
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"Brianna! Is Sam okay? Astrid cried."No. Drake tore him up. She wanted to sound tough, but the sobs came bubbling up and overtook her. "Oh, God, Astrid, he's hurt so bad.Astrid gasped and covered her hand with her mouth. Brianna put her arms around Astrid and sobbed into her hair."Is he going to die? Astrid asked, voice wobbly."No, I don't think so, Brianna said. She stood back and wiped her tears. "I gave him something for the pain. But he's messed up, Astrid."
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"Why are you leaving me?He wrote, I do not know how to live.I do not know either but I am trying.I do not know how to try.There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me."
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"It's for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn't go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can't shake the persistent, needling feeling that I've forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever."
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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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"This is the story of a girl gone mad while trying to find a little bit of love."
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"I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy."
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"Sometimes when you love someone so deeply, that is the thing that hurts the most."
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"For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of."
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"Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.She might have seen that what had bowed her head so profoundly -the thought of the world's concern at her situation- was found on an illusion. She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself."
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"You have a light in you that's almost blinding. But in me there's only darkness. Sometimes I think it's like the darkness that infected you that night in the inn when you began to cry and to tremble. You were so helpless, so unprepared for it. I try to keep the darkness from you because I need your light. I need it desperately, but you don't need the darkness."
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"People's envy shows how unhappy they feel, their constant attention to the doings of others how bored they are."
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"I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling."
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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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"You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!"
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"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."
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"This is what happens when you look back to happiness, this pain, this heart-break, this discontent."
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"The clouds were gathering over Mary, too--deep and dark, but of altogether another kind from those that enveloped Letty: no troubles are for one moment to be compared with those that come of the wrongness, even if it be not wickedness, that is our own. Some clouds rise from stagnant bogs and fens; others from the wide, clean, large ocean. But either kind, thank God, will serve the angels to come down by. In the old stories of celestial visitants the clouds do much; and it is oftenest of all down the misty slope of griefs and pains and fears, that the most powerful joy slides into the hearts of men and women and children."
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"I burn a hole through everything I stare, and it happens when I stand in front of the mirror too."
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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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