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“An emotion, which is a passion, ceases to be a passion, as soon as we form a clear and distinct idea thereof.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“If emotion can create a physical action, then duplicating the physical action can re-create the emotion.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“The latter seemed to be a victim to some emotion that he tried in vain to repress.” Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
“Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.” Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
“The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“I know now that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of a great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.” Albert Camus, The Plague
“Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.” Jane Austen, Persuasion
“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“My wilful actions and acquisitions are but roving; —the idlest reverie, the faintest native emotion, command my curiosity and respect.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
“In certain diseased conditions consciousness is a mere spark, without memory of the past or thought of the future, and with the present narrowed down to some one simple emotion or sensation of the body.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.” Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.” Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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