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• Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Self, Soul, Tears

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• Sorrow is tranquility remembered in emotion.

  Dorothy Parker

  Sorrow, Tranquility, Remembered

  Here Lies "Sentiment" (1939) SeeWilliamWordsworth 6

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• One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

  Arthur Koestler

  World, May, Metaphysical

  'Darkness at Noon' (1940) 'The Second Hearing' ch. 7

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• Emotion is messy, contradictory... and true.

  Nigella Lawson

  Literature, Messy, Contradictory

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Flower, Simple, Secret

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• Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Hands, Action, Film

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. May 25, 2004.

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• I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Children, Sleeves

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• When you are modelling, you are creating a picture, a still life, perhaps something like a silent film. You convey emotion but you are only using your body.

  Helena Christensen

  Silent Films, Creating, Body

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

  Goldwin Smith

  Religious, Age, Church

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

  Clive Bell

  Trying, Degrees, Function

  'Art' (1914) pt. 3 ch. 3

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• I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Children, Body, Women's Bodies

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• Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Music, Sarcastic, Clever

  Quoted in A. E. Hotchner, Papa Hemingway (1966)

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• Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

  Una Stannard

  Men, Emotional, Thinking

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• Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

  Ted Koppel

  Loss, Perspective, Pay

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• Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  Robert Frost

  Poetry, Found, Great Poet

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• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  Mae West

  Love, Art, Instinct

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Compassion, Hatred

  Dalai Lama XIV (2002). “Illustrated Teachings of the Dalai Lama”

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• A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Creativity, Painter

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• Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.

  John Sterling

  Emotional, Elements, Leading On

  John Sterling (1848). “Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues”, p.116

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• If one has such an encounter it is to be expected it will bring him into conflict, especially conflict with himself, because one sometimes literally does not know what to do or what not to do. But is this struggle and even the mistakes one may make, not better, and do they not develop us more than if we keep systematically away from emotions?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Struggle, Emotional

  "The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886".

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

  Theodore Isaac Rubin

  Inspirational, Artist, Thinking

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• I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Emotional, Feelings

  Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam (1995). “Matisse on Art”, p.66, Univ of California Press

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• No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Emotional, Long, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Sadness, Emotional, Yield

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• If you would have me weep, you must first of all feel grief yourself.

  Horace

  Grief, Literature, Firsts

  Horace, Edward Henry Blakeney (1970). “Horace on the art of poetry: Latin text, English prose translation, introduction and notes, together with Ben Jonson's English verse rendering”, Books for Libraries

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