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  I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Truth, Lying

  Letter to Benjamin Bailey, 22 Nov. 1817

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• Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

  Leigh Hunt

  Love, Monsters, Telescopes

  Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.31, London : Smith, Elder

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• Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

  Leigh Hunt

  Melancholy, Trifles, Magnifying

  Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.31, London : Smith, Elder

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• Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

  George Eliot

  Life, Good Life, Bases

  George Eliot (2016). “Daniel Deronda: Top Novelist Focus”, p.362, 谷月社

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• All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Sight, Inspire, Doe

  "Don Quixote". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, II. 6, 1605-1615.

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• Every gift, though it be small, is in reality great if given with affection.

  John Wolcot

  Motivational, Reality, Given

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• Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Fire, Coal

  1593 Venus and Adonis, stanza 65, l.387-8.

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• It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

  Jim Carrey

  Ideas, Making Love, Down And

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• Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.

  Mason Cooley

  Doe, Reproach

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• I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

  David Duchovny

  Dog, Live In The Moment, Care

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• Jealousy is the grave of affection.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Jealousy, Graves

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.87, Jazzybee Verlag

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• What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

  Anna Freud

  People, Opinion, Primitive

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• I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

  Tupac Shakur

  People, Giving, Deals

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

  David Ogden Stiers

  Father, Simple, Men

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.

  Jane Austen

  Integrity, Romance, Prejudice

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.284, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Curiosity, Great Gatsby Book

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• I foster a sorrowful conception of affection. Make no sacrifices.

  Franz Liszt

  Sacrifice, Sorrowful, Conception

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• Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

  Sakya Pandita

  Men, Causes, Violent

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• It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.

  Michael Shanks

  Character, Play, Impossible

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• The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• But if you love animals for all the right reasons- and that's just love and affection- then you're going to go after animals who need you.

  Eric Roberts

  Animal, Needs, Reason

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• Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.

  Ashley Purdy

  Attention And Love, Given, Persons

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• One must not be mean with the affections; what is spent of the fund is renewed in the spending itself.

  Sigmund Freud

  Mean, Spending, Fund

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• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Heart, Equal

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.41, Princeton University Press

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• I put down these memorandums of my affections in honor of tenderness, in honor of all of those who have been conscripted into the brotherhood of loss.

  Edward Hirsch

  Healing, Loss, Brotherhood

  Edward Hirsch (2011). “The Living Fire”, p.78, Knopf

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