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“After he finished he said: If there is anything for you to learn, it's only that you should not be ashamed. Don't be ashamed to be a person with feelings. No matter what it is, feel it tenderly and...”
“What is this thing of intangible substance that wreaks consequential havoc on our lives? What is this sensitive thread that runs through heart and mind, and when given the slightest tremor grasps h...”
“Internet has grown to not only touch humans in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense.”
“But if I feel, may I never express? Never! declared Reason.I groaned under her bitter sternness. Never - never - oh, hard word! This hag, this Reason, would not let me look up, or smile, or hope; s...”
“Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's ...”
“Only worry about what you absolutely know about,' Mr. Worthington said to me, putting my mind back where it belonged. 'That's the key. Worrying about anything else is just a waste of time and emoti...”
“Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun,So depe may impressioun be take.”
“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are...”
“You hate him for turning you inside of yourself. You are still getting used to looking at your body in the light.”
“Why did it have to be so hard? Why couldn't there be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?”
“I will never fully understand why things happen the way they do on this planet. Too many people hold their tongue here. Too many people hide their true feelings. And at the end of the day, that doe...”
“Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealousreaders.) But it was all too muchtoo much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, per...”
“In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very litt...”
“Let me tell you something. A man aint a goddamn ax. Chopping, hacking, busting every goddamn minute of the day. Things get to him. Things he cant chop down because theyre inside.”
“Now I know without a shadow of doubt that you can't chase away those images, let alone the visible holes that burrow deep down inside. You can't chase away the reverberations or the memories that s...”
“Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil....”
“Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will!Where shall we dine? O me! What fray was here?Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all.Heres much to do w...”
“But what is the way forward? I know what it isn't. It's not, as we once believed, plenty to eat and a home with all the modern conveniences. It's not a 2,000-mile-long wall to keep Mexicans out or ...”
“Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.”
“His emotions are not for men, they are for his vision.”
