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"The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live."
"She had all her life long been accustomed to harbor thoughts and emotions which never voiced themselves… They belonged to her her and were her own, and she entertained the conviction that she had a right to them and they they concerned no one but herself."
"Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually."
"Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt."
"You never quite know where your emotions will take you."
"Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile."
"Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later."
"As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions."
"It's really the artist in me that loves the idea of an image and an image that provokes an emotion."
"My music comes from my emotion, always."
"Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage."
"Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner."
"Emotions are the curse of logic."
"Without emotion, what's the point of being human?"
"Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions."
"It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion."
"Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not."
"I shouldn't have named the chimps. It wasn't scientific. I didn't know. I knew nothing. And worse sin of all was that I was ascribing to them emotions like happiness, sadness and so forth."
"emotion is first of all and in principle an accident"