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Feels Quotes by Mason Cooley

24 Feels quotes by Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley’s aphorisms cut straight to the heart of feeling, often with a dash of humor. His brief, pointed observations make complex emotions feel surprisingly approachable.

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Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

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Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

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Progress may feel more like loss than gain.

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The rich feel full of merit.

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When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened.

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The self-righteous feel no need to be charming, and thus double their offensiveness.

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A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

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Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.

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I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.

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All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

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I feel that I have something significant to say, but I cannot think what it is.

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Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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Old men feel a slightly reluctant affection for one another.

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Self-satisfaction and self-pity are both condemned. What are people permitted to feel about themselves?

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As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.

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I feel affluent or not according to what part of town I am in.

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As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.

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Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

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Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

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Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not.

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If you insist on asking me why I feel the way I do, I plan to take the Fifth Amendment.

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When you feel protective toward your parents, you have become an adult.

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The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

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Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past.

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The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits.

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Money comes to life as it is spent.

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Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.

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Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted.

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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.

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Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

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The body has a mind of its own.

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In retirement, I look for days off from my days off. Mason Cooley

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My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.

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The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

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