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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

—Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Trust me to know my own feelings. Don’t assume you know what’s best for me.

—Jen Frederick in Undeclared

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Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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Most pets display so many humanlike traits and emotions it’s easy to forget they’re not gifted with the English language and then get snubbed when we talk to them and they don’t say anything back.

—Stephenie Geist

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Only do what your heart tells you.

—Princess Diana

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Everyone wants to fall in love. But I think more people are in love with the theory of love. If you’re looking in from the outside, it looks so beautiful. On the inside, it’s scary because it can take over your life. It’s the strongest emotion but also the darkest. It can put you on a high for days, but it can wrap an anchor around your feet and drown you in less than a minute.

—Calia Read in Calia Read

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Home isn’t a place, it’s a feeling.

—Cecelia Ahern in Love, Rosie

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No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

—Henry Adams

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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

—George Jean Nathan

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Sometimes I would open my eyes when we were kissing, I would watch him and I could see it. I could actually see love—not words, not an emotion, not an abstract concept or a subjective state of mind, but a living, breathing thing.

—Tiffanie DeBartolo in How to Kill a Rock Star

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I can live for two months on a good compliment.

—Mark Twain

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Hate is a lot like love. It’s warm and fills you up until every part of you is tingling to release it.

—Heather Demetrios in Something Real

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To embrace the child may threaten the adult who values information above wonder, entertainment above play, and intelligence above ignorance. If we were really to care for the child, we would have to face our own lower natures — our indomitable emotions, our insane desires, and the vast range of our incapacity.

—Thomas Moore

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The first boy is always the hardest to get over. It's just the way the world works.

—Sarah Dessen in That Summer

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It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

—Voltaire

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