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Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the pr

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman

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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. – Max Eastman

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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. – Max Eastman

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You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes. – Margaret Drabble

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…that freshness of feeling, that delicate honor which shrinks from wounding even a sentiment… – George Eliot, Adam Bede

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And I am glad to see, that you have also put to flight the gloomy thoughts which used to haunt you. I like to see people cheerful and happy. What is the use of giving way to sadness in this beautiful world? – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion, A Romance, “The Evening and the Morning St

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The feeling is often the deeper truth, the opinion the more superficial one. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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You dont want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them. – Richard Bach

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We lovd, and we lovd as long as we could
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The precursor of the mirror is the mother’s face. – D.W. Winnicott, Playing and Reality, 1971

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