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You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.
Indignation
Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them--at least I didn't; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.
The Book of Disquiet
As our self-interests differ, so do our feelings
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels
Our most natural feelings are those we are loath to confess, and fatuity is among them
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth
Every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays