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Emotion

«There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.»
«There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together»
«Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.»
Author: William O'Rourke | About: Emotion, Regret | Keywords: immediacy, influences, lacks, odd
«Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.»
«There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, w»
«The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case.»
«She (Katherine Hepburn) runs the gamut of emotions from A to B»
Author: Dorothy Parker (Poet, Writer) | About: Emotion | Keywords: emotions, gamut, Hepburn, runs
«There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.»
Author: Henry James | About: Emotion
«There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.»
«The artist is a receptacle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.»

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