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“Pain is like a healing emotional fever.”

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“These raids didn't usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.”

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Book:Whisperworld

Source: Whisperworld

“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.”

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Book:Speeches and Writings 1832–1858

Source: Speeches and Writings 1832–1858

“Once I was free; there was no cage that could bind me, and I had yet to create my box of numbness within my mind to be my silent protector.”

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Book:Caged in Spirit

Source: Caged in Spirit

“to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.”

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Book:The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

Source: The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

“I thought of myself mixing the fragrance of a certain day – the heavy musk of the hillside after the rain with the lightness of fresh blossoms doused in the downpour. I thought of each little bottle as the essence of a happy day or a sad one. I mixed the scent of a lonely moment – sandalwood and bergamot lingering over a rich, peppery base.”

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Book:The Secret Mandarin

Source: The Secret Mandarin

“Francie had heard swearing since she had heard words. Obscenity and profanity had no meaning as such among those people. They were emotional expressions of inarticulate people with small vocabularies; they made a kind of dialect. The phrases could mean many things according to the expression and tone used in saying them. So now, when Francie heard themselves called lousy bastards, she smiled tremulously at the kind man. She knew that he was really saying, “Goodbye—God bless you.”

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Book:A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Source: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous.”

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Book:The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

Source: The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness

“I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.”

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Author:John Cage

“The melodious song mesmerized me and cloaked my soul in a most liberating embrace I had never known. The emotion enveloped me, and smothered the emptiness.”

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Book:Caged in Spirit

Source: Caged in Spirit

“If this conviction had not been a strongly emotional one and if those searching for knowledge had not been inspired by Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis, they would hardly have been capable of that untiring devotion which alone enables man to attain his greatest achievements.”

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Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions