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Emotion Quotes
"To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again."
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"Men can go to hell! I'll meet them there."
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"Joy of life is to be content."
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"I may not be perfect, but I am worthy."
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"I will break your heart over a fucking library card."
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"In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged."
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"Sometimes, all it takes to lift the sadness from another is to let them know how much you appreciate them and how grateful you are having them in your life."
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"And she thought, with a vicious thrill, of what these people would do if they read her mind in this moment; if they knew that she was thinking of a man in a quarry, thinking of his body with a sharp intimacy as one does not think of another's body but only of one's own. She smiled; the cold purity of her face prevented them from seeing the nature of that smile."
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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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"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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"Umbrellas raining upon me, as these cloudy tears give me shelter."
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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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"Don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?.."
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"Drama don't arrive by surprise, it is subconsciously attracted to fertile grounds."
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"Pink colors my world red!"
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"She was capable of causing me pain, but no longer any joy. Pain alone kept my wearisome attachment alive."
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"I lit up like a Christmas tree-Augustus Waters."
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"People say keep your emotions outside, how the hell is that possible!!!!"
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"Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control."
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"Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home.Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out in the evenings. It's cruel and unjust on my part, but let me commit that injustice. It's an agony for me at home. As soon as the sun disappears, my spirit begins to be weighed down by depression. What depression! Don't ask why. I myself don't know. I swear by God's truth I don't know. Here I'm in anguish, I go to the Lebedevs and there it's still worse; I return from there and here it's depression again, and so all night... Simply despair!"
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"A good indignation brings out all one's powers."
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"In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life."
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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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"Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason."
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"Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true."
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