"Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should."
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"I am not an emotional type of guy. But I follow my emotions more than my logic."
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"No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all."
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"Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough."
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"Emotions are choices."
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"A purely disembodied human emotion is a nonentity."
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"Artistic inevitability lies in the complete adequacy of the external to the emotion."
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"Because people are more than emotions. People have thoughts and reasons for doing things."
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"There'll be oceans of talk and emotions without end."
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"I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap."
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"It takes courage to realize that you are greater than your moods, greater than your thoughts, and that you can control your moods and thoughts."
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"We exhaust ourselves more from the tension and the consequences of internal disharmony than from hard, unremitting work."
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"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."
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"Religion is not a dogma, nor an emotion, but a service."
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"If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears, Idle Tears valuable."
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"In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers."
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"When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back."
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"A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith."
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"Could it think, the heart would stop beating."
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"There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them."
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