"It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence."
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"Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion."
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"she acquired the certainty of the expansion of time by depth of emotion, range and infinite multiplicity of experience."
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"There is a fear of emotion in tennis."
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"A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come."
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"An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions"
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"In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women."
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"Love is an emotion which does not die it disappears."
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"I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now."
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"An investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace."
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"Marianne Williamson has written that there are really only two primary emotions in the universe, love and fear. So anytime you're feeling anxious, insecure, worried, angry or resentful, you've left love and entered fear."
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"i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it."
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"Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity."
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"Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility."
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"Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact."
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"It's the emotion...each word has got a connotation and symbolism and the thing is finding what's behind the word-what meaning it has and what emotion. I'm really into vocal repetition as a definite art form."
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"Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes."
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"I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time."
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"We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion."
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"old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections."
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