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“There is some shadow of delight and delicacy which smiles upon and flatters us even in the very lap of melancholy.”
Michel de Montaigne
Melancholy
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Joy
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Human Emotion
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Duality
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Emotional Complexity
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“Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope
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Desire
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Perception
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Probability
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Human Emotion
3.
“There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad.”
W.H. Auden
Love
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Envy
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Cynicism
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Human Emotion
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Disillusionment
4.
“One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.”
W.H. Auden
Rationality
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Grief
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Love
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Mythology
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Human Emotion
5.
“Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.”
John Milton
Love
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Science
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Humor
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Chemistry
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Human Emotion
6.
“I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.”
John Milton
Anger
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Reconciliation
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Nature
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Human Emotion
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Divine Wrath
7.
“Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.”
John Milton
Jealousy
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Love
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Suffering
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Human Emotion
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Relationship
8.
“Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou canst weep a tear And thy maker is not near.”
William Blake
Divine Presence
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Human Emotion
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Spiritual Comfort
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Philosophical Reassurance
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Poetic Expression
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Existential Insight
9.
“In spite of their sadness – because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another – the three young men were happy.”
Aldous Huxley
Sadness
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Love
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Happiness
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Paradox
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Human Emotion
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Philosophical Observation
10.
“Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious.”
T.S. Eliot
Envy
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Everywhere
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Unaware
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Human Emotion
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Social Observation
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Psychological Insight
11.
“Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong.”
E.M. Forster
Scientific Limitations
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Human Emotion
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Relationship Complexity
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Empirical Flaws
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Misunderstanding
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Connection
12.
“Connection regrets are the largest category in the deep structure of human regret.”
Daniel H. Pink
Connection Regrets
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Human Emotion
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Regret Structure
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Relationships
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Choices
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Reflection
13.
“The challenge for us is that no amount of studying or open-mindedness can genuinely recreate the power of fear and uncertainty.”
Morgan Housel
Fear And Uncertainty
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Human Emotion
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Knowledge Limits
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Psychological Challenges
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Risk Awareness
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Emotional Strength
14.
“Of course, true love is exceptional – two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.”
Albert Camus
Love And Vanity
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Human Emotion
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Existential Reflection
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Love
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Vanity
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Emotion
15.
“Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.”
Albert Camus
Anxious Happiness
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Inner Restlessness
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Human Emotion
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Wandering
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Happiness
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Anxiety
16.
“It’s your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.”
Isaac Asimov
Fiction Motives
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Human Emotion
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Writing
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Psychology
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Imagination
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Literature
17.
“She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.”
Victor Hugo
Emotional Depth
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Personal Sadness
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Life’s Potential
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Unfulfilled Dreams
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Inner Turmoil
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Human Emotion
18.
“Joy’s smile is much closer to tears than laughter.”
Victor Hugo
Bittersweet Joy
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Emotional Depth
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Smiles And Tears
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Happiness And Sorrow
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Complex Feelings
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Human Emotion
19.
“Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.”
Victor Hugo
Enduring Love
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Human Emotion
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Heart And Soul
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Timeless Affection
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Love's Power
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Humanity
20.
“Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless.”
Virginia Woolf
Fall Nature
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Human Emotion
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Nature Life
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Fall
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Life
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Nature
21.
“Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Fortune Envy
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Envy Effects
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Fortune Loss
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Human Emotion
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Psychological Impact
22.
“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Emotional Understanding
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Love and Hate
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Perception Power
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Human Emotion
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Knowledge and Feeling
23.
“Fear arises sooner than anything else.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Fear Response
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Human Emotion
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Fear Instinct
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Immediate Reaction
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Emotional Response
24.
“Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.”
Aristotle
Human Passion
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Irrational Nature
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Emotional Instincts
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Reason and Passion
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Human Emotion
25.
“But art and ideas come out of the passion and torment of experience: it is impossible to have a real relationship to the first if one’s aim is to be protected from the second.”
James Baldwin
Art and Passion
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Creative Struggles
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Experience and Expression
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Artistic Process
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Human Emotion
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