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• Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights; All pleasures and all pains, remembering The boughs of summer and the winter branch. These are the measures destined for her soul.

  Wallace Stevens

  Summer, Pain, Loneliness

  Wallace Stevens (2002). “Harmonium”, p.105, Icaria Editorial

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• While there is no one who hasn't an evil bone in their body, there is also no one who is totally evil to the core. the fact that someone harbors opposing emotions simply makes them human.

  Masaru Emoto

  Evil, Body, Facts

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• I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Men, Deeds

  Albert Camus (1972). “The Plague”, eBookEden.com

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• Maybe you’ve invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives.

  Joel Osteen

  Disappointment, Blessing, Work Out

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• You know, you hear about these movements for women, and for children, and for people who are any race but white, and you think that it's about time that men got a movement. Think about it. Guys can't play the piano, or dance, or sing. We can't cry, or be too happy, or show any emotion for that matter. The only thing we have left to us is anger, and even that we have to bottle up. Boys should be able to express what they feel and not have to endure people laughing at them, forcing them to wonder if they're gay or not, just because they like to paint.

  Alex Sanchez

  Children, Gay, Men

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• Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

  Jane Austen

  Age, Blushing

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.180, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To live is to have worries and uncertainties. Keep them inside, and they will destroy you for certain--leaving behind a person so callused that emotion can find no root in his heart.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Life, Heart, Roots

  Brandon Sanderson (2007). “Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author's Definitive Edition”, p.293, Macmillan

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• My belief is that art should not be comforting; for comfort, we have mass entertainment and one another. Art should provoke, disturb, arouse our emotions, expand our sympathies in directions we may not anticipate and may not even wish.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Comforting, Wish

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• All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance Italy or Ancient Egypt, is re-assimilated and homogenized into its most digestible form. Desperate for the new, but disappointed with anything but the familiar, we recolonize past and future. The same trend can be seen in personal relationships, in the way people are expected to package themselves, their emotions and sexuality, in attractive and instantly appealing forms.

  J. G. Ballard

  Past, Egypt, Museums

  "The Atrocity Exhibition". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1970.

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• But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.

  George Orwell

  Party, Blow, Hatred

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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• Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Hurt, Pain, Hate

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2009). “The Den of Shadows Quartet”, p.66, Delacorte Press

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• Art without emotion its like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Art, Creativity, Cake

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• What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint, patience, and decision. And the institution of the family, and the emotions that arise therein, the fierce jealousy, the tenderness for offspring, parental self-devotion, all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young.

  H. G. Wells

  Strong, Wall, Men

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• This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?" "Yes," she said. "That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupid, Feelings, Nausea

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1250, Macmillan

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• He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.

  Anais Nin

  Heartbreak, Betrayal, Fall

  Anais Nin (1977). “DELTA OF VENUS EROTICA”

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• But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or direct us to the rain descending on black earth in early spring. --- And we, who always think of happiness rising, would feel the emotion that almost baffles us when a happy thing falls.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Spring, Rain, Fall

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• In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Ebb And Flow, Uncertain, Senses

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.75, Grove Press

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• You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, May, Never Forget

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• How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We are all lost at sea, washed between hope and despair, hailing something that may never come to rescue us.

  Julian Barnes

  Dark, Sea, Sky

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• I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled imitation of that emotion, and for this reason it was a temptation to exaggerate, to throw a rope of superlatives across the abyss that divided experience from its representation by anecdote.

  Ian Mcewan

  Intelligent, Temptation, Shadow

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• It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fiction, Study, Interest

  Isaac Asimov (1983). “The Robot Collection: The Robot Novels”, Doubleday Books

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• she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience.

  Anais Nin

  Expansion, Depth, Infinite

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• Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts of things they later regret-like, oh, throwing a book at someone else.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Regret, Book, Ideas

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2011). “The Name of this Book is Secret: The Secret Series”, p.7, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Country, Home, Simple

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

  Graham Greene

  People, Lust, Sorrow

  Graham Greene (1998). “The Tenth Man”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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