"The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you."
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"I'll always be here," he said softly. "You can never fill my need, never drive me away, no matter how much you give me. The good or the bad. I'll always be hungry for emotion, always and forever, and I can feel you hurting. I can turn it to joy. If you'll let me."
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"It's all well and good saying you avoid pain by avoiding relationships, but what about the wonderful things you're avoiding as well? What about the joy and the intimacy and the trust that come with finding someone you love?"
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"This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified."
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"Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had several lifetimes' worth of reason, cold machinations, and, ultimately, emptiness. Perhaps the moths knew what he didn't, that the joy of the flame was worth the price of destruction."
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"Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing."
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"The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow."
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"I got really passionate about music with early Smiths and Joy Division. And New Order, Sonic Youth, Cramps...kind of right across the board, whatever fell underground. Kraftwerk...it was really mixed. Quite confusing, I suppose, but it just felt good."
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"It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy."
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"Joy is something entirely different from pleasure."
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"The time you wait subtracts the joy The heads the angel you destroy"
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"Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite."
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"My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life."
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"How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!"
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"As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies."
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"The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last."
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"Colors are light's suffering and joy"
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". . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity."
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"Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so."
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"To read without joy is stupid."
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