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If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
The Book of Disquiet
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth
Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds
Alas! how little can a moment show
Of an eye where feeling plays
In ten thousand dewy rays:
A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!
Of an eye where feeling plays
In ten thousand dewy rays:
A face o'er which a thousand shadows go!
The Triad
I don't like to see things on purpose. I like them to soak in. A friend ... asked me to go to the top of the Empire State Building once, and I told him that he shouldn't treat New York as a sight - it's feeling, an emotional experience. And the same with every place else.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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