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is thinking things will last. By contrast, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

I'm a romantic... a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't. F. Scott Fitzgerald

is desiring 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. Oscar Wilde

is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action. Hermann Hesse

is the superstructure erected upon brutality, as each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments.

The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality. Carl Jung

is contrasted with compassion in that while compassion is risky, exigent, and puts one inside of someone else, sentimentality is superficial and does nothing to expand our understanding.

Sentimentality is superficial, easy listening that does nothing to expand our understanding. Compassion is quite different. Risky and exigent, it puts you inside someone else. This is one of literature's greatest strengths.

is 99 per cent sentiment, and 1 per cent mentality.

Sentimentality is 99 per cent sentiment, and 1 per cent mentality.

is no indication of a warm heart; nothing weeps more freely than a block of ice.

Sentimentality is no indication of a warm heart; nothing weeps more freely than a block of ice.

is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't got.

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sentimentality