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[Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.
Karen Horney
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
Albert Einstein
3.
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
John F. Kennedy
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[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?
Cesare Borgia
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Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
Diana Gabaldon
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We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that
Denis Johnson
7.
The tremendous world I have inside my head. But how free myself and free it without being torn to pieces. And a thousand times rather be torn to pieces than retain it in me or bury it. That, indeed, is why I am here, that is quite clear to me.
Franz Kafka
8.
The created order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.
Michel de Certeau
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If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.
George W. Bush
10.
To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.
John James Audubon
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We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known.
Francoise Sagan
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I have wondered why is it that some people are less affected and torn by the verities of life and death that others.
John Steinbeck
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Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.
Paulo Coelho
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The mask is torn off, while the reality remains
Lucretius
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
Cathy Guisewite
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I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.
Charles M. Schulz
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Rip Torn had, like, lessons in everything he said, and one of them was, "I know that an actor can undermine anything a director tells him to do by making fun of it." And he thought that that's what I did.
John Heard
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I don't really want to direct myself, but I'm certainly torn in that direction.
Paul Reubens
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As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.
Rufus Wainwright
20.
Only a smile
can make the tears dissapear
Mario
21.
During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.
Ariel Pink
22.
As it turns out, you can function while your heart is being torn to shreds.
Jodi Picoult
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Torn between fear and something that resembled love, she wrestled with questions she never dreamed she would face: How could she leave? Then again, how could she stay?
Jodi Picoult
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each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.
Erica Jong
25.
I like semi-torn-down places where I could get nestled in and get something done without anyone bothering me.
Iggy Pop
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Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.
Virginia Woolf
28.
Building a set is like building a place, but it's a temporary place, because sets usually get torn down. Kind of unfortunate.
David Lynch
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Love is meant to LIFT you up, not tear you down. It is meant to strengthen you, not weaken you.
Suzy Kassem
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...it strikes me with terror and anguish to feel I absolutely must be torn from you for ever. I see the necessity of departure; and it is like looking on the necessity of death.
Charlotte Bronte
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Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties.
Swami Vivekananda
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There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I always know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't feel torn and I think that is really important.
Bethenny Frankel