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Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
People call me feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statues and decisions possible or impossible to make.
