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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

I get angry about things, then go on and work.

One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person’s surface, from the soles of his feet all the way up to each hair on the hated head.

We love even when our love is not requited.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.