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Emotion Quotes
"It is better for the heart to break, than not to break."
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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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"Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning."
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"Without even thinking about it, she reached out for warmth, reached out for acceptance. She was hurt and as much as she tried to build up the wall of protection and never let anyone in again, Wharick had changed her building capabilities. Wharick had changed her heart."
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"The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness."
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"Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it."
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"Innocent and joyfulI take your handfor I know you judge not,you simply understand.You are my companionon this voyage of discovery,singing sweet soft musicto the universe inside of me."
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"I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there."
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"The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone."
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"No matter how much time and space may come between us, I still feel you."
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"I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator."
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"You areas fleetingly beautifulas a mother's tearsand a father's pranksa brother's bachelorhoodand a best friend's bad mooda bride's glittering jittersand a handsome stranger's smile."
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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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"He captured my heart so profoundly, I couldn't even write the words to say."
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"So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more."
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"And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words."
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"I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!""You will hate the next place, too," I said. "What you are you will carry with you."
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"I drift into the armpits of strangers, tasting their manic salt, and sleep to forget everything."
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"We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have."
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"There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings."
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"Never let the meaning of your love light escape to the dark nothingness of oblivion."
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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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"What a sad pair we are," she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings."
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"Men can go to hell! I'll meet them there."
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"O beautiful, to make escapeAnd leave this world behind.Had I to stay another dayI'd lose my fucking mind!"
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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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"I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again."
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"Anger is energising. The opposite of anger is depression, which is anger turned inward."
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"When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I'd do it all again to have the life I have now."
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"I heard the silence pouring from them. The audience held themselves quiet, tense, and tight, as if the song had burned them worse than flame.Each person held their wounded selves closely, clutching their pain as if it were a precious thing."
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