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Hannah Arendt Philosopher, Political Theorist
Emotion

"The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live."

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Kate Chopin Author
Emotion

"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."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
Emotion

"Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Emotion

"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."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Emotion

"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."

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Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
Emotion

"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."

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