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Feelings can even kill such good hard things as love and hate.

Billiards at Half-Past Nine
To feel is to understand. To think is to err. To understand what another person thinks is to disagree with them. To understand what another person feels is to be them.
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First we feel. Then we fall.

Finnegans Wake
We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human.

The Common Reader
If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

Night and Day
It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

Mrs. Dalloway
All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.

Orlando
To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

All the Pretty Horses
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.

The Architecture of Happiness
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