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• Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Rely Upon, Literature, Void

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• Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Opinion, Impossible

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• Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Emotional, Feelings, Tongue

  'Menschliches, Allzumenschliches' (1867-80) vol. 2, sect. 1, no. 202

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• Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.

  James Otis

  Men, Tyrants, Soul

  "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.

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• The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fear, Halloween, Strong Emotions

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2014). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, eBookIt.com

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• Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.

  T. S. Eliot

  Night, Effort, Together

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.184, Faber & Faber

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• We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Responsibility, Emotional, Thinking

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• The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Strong, Knowing

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• Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

  Robert Henri

  Motivation, Emotional, Knowing Who You Are

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• He is not affected by the reality of distress touching his heart, but by the showy resemblance of it striking his imagination. He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird.

  Thomas Paine

  Heart, Reality, Imagination

  The Rights of Man pt. 1 (1791)

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• When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them.

  Rajneesh

  Sadness, Cutting, Roots

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• The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.

  Barbara Deming

  Giving, Destroying, Masters

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• Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Sorrow, Tomorrow

  Helen Steiner Rice (2004). “The Poems and Prayers of Helen Steiner Rice”, p.116, Revell

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• Throughout the time in which I am working on a canvas I can feel how I am beginning to love it, with that love which is born of slow comprehension.

  Joan Miro

  Canvas, Born, Feels

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• Honor your humanness and all of your feelings - the messy ones, the growing pains, the ache - because we can't have the dark without the light.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Pain, Dark, Light

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• By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Art, Mean, Creative

  "The Non-Objective World: The Manifesto of Suprematism". Book by Kasimir Malevich, translated by Howard Dearstyne. Part II: "Suprematism", p. 67, 2003.

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• Painting is with me but another word for feeling.

  John Constable

  Feelings, Painting, White Horse

  John E. Thornes, John Constable (1999). “John Constable's Skies: A Fusion of Art and Science”, p.51, A&C Black

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• I could always flip between emotions and be available to suddenly do something new. I think it's a part of playing, and you hang onto it when you're a kid.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Kids, Thinking, Flip

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• As an actress, I was trained to show emotion I did not feel, or no emotion at all.

  Gene Tierney

  Actresses, Shows, Feels

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  Lars von Trier

  Strong, Home, Grew Up

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• Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

  Xunzi

  Music, Fundamentals, World

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• Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Community, Together

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• The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

  Chauncey Wright

  Philosophy, Intellectual, Desire

  Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.50, A&C Black

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• One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Reading, Sickness

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich.

  Pierre Salinger

  Son, Emotional, Ostriches

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