"Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it."
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"The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to."
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"The mind is always the patsy of the heart."
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"Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others."
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"The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long."
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"There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart"
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"We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts."
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"A scary dream makes your heart beat faster. Why doesn't the part of your brain that controls your heartbeat realize that another part of your brain is making the whole thing up? Don't these people communicate?"
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"So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today."
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"There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains."
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"I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'"
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"We should not think of conversion as the acceptance of a particular creed, but as a change of heart."
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"Rebuffed, but always persevering; self-reproached, but ever regaining faith; undaunted, tenacious, the heart of man labors toward immeasurably distant goals."
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"Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning."
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"God is actually inside. He lives in our hearts."
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"I'm grateful to myself and those closest to me me for having given me that non-material base that means I'm a happy man, one who doesn't have to compete or engineer projects he doesn't have his heart in."
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"Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart."
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"That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it."
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"My heart belongs to daddy."
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"But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone."
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