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• I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Trying, Collecting

  "Karl Lagerfeld, Global Aphorist" by Bruce Sterling, www.wired.com. July 17, 2009.

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• I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Missing, Miss Me

  "Read Christopher Nolan's Farewell Letter to the Batman Franchise" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. July 24, 2012.

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• Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Long, Evil

  "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms (Selected Aphorisms from the Athenaeum (1798) #31)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

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• When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a poem, or a film that bypasses the brain and aims straight for the heart . . . should automatically be heaped with scorn. I think it is symptomatic of a sad and dangerous impoverishment of spirit.

  Bill Richardson

  Heart, Thinking, Brain

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• I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here to set me right. The truth is that you did not believe in idealism. All love was suspect; even a saint's was just differed self-interest. And it was impossible to argue without sounding either sentimental or naive. Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. And you studied early to disguise your childhood pain. But it is not universal.

  Michael Arditti

  Pain, Smart, Believe

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• I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Love, Believe, Heart

  "To Have and Have Not". Book by Ernest Hemingway. Chapter 21, 1937.

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• Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspiration, Mean, People

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Honesty, Oneness, Effort

  "A Plea for Solidarity". The International Socialist Review, Vplume XIV, No. 9, March 1914.

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• The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Real, Noise, Brahms

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• You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are the most generous people on Earth without question. And what I think we should do is constantly try to give as much of ourselves as we can to each other - that's the secret of happiness for all of us.

  Peter Cundall

  Thinking, Giving, People

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• No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.

  Jean Rhys

  Past, Practice, Cold

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• Two separate, distinct personalities, not separate at all, but inextricably bound, soul and body and mind, to each other, how did we get so far apart so fast?

  Judith Guest

  Love, Break Up, Soul And Body

  Judith Guest (1980). “Ordinary people”

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• We agree that language functions in a certain way so that we can understand each other; but within that are built all sorts of sentimental codes, codes of authenticity, codes of certain kinds of emotion.

  John Yau

  Way, Emotion, Language

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• While marriage is many things, it is anything but sentimental. Marriage is glorious but hard. It's a burning joy and strength, and yet it is also blood, sweat, and tears; humbling defeats and exhausting victories.

  Timothy Keller

  Blood, Sweat, Joy

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.14, Penguin

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• There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

  William Ernest Henley

  Character, Men, Two

  William Ernest Henley (1906). “Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation: Literature”

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• All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

  Sallust

  Anger, Mind, Firsts

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• I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

  Gloria Steinem

  Graduation, Memorable, Funeral

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• Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

  William Hamilton Maxwell

  Opposites, Two, People

  William Hamilton Maxwell (1833). “Stories of Waterloo; and other tales [by W.H. Maxwell].”, p.5

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• In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.

  Ernest Renan

  Facts, World, Littles

  Ernest Renan (1864). “The Life of Jesus”, p.92

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• The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

  Gregor Strasser

  People, Important, Development

  "The Mind and Face of Nazi Germany" by Nagendranath Gangulee, (p. 165), 1942.

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• Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.

  John Surtees

  Disappointment, Home, Car

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• For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Passion, Son, Political

  Sir Wilfrid Laurier (1890). “Wilfrid Laurier on the Platform: Collection of the Principal Speeches Made in Parliament Or Before the People, by the Honorable Wilfrid Laurier ... Member for Quebec-East in the Commons, Since His Entry Into Active Politics in 1871”, Turcotte & Ménard

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• The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

  William Godwin

  Children, Parent, Affection

  William Godwin (1831). “Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author”, p.274

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• For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Sports, Religious, Sentiments

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• Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

  Alfred Hershey

  Justice, Honor, Quality

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