Complex emotions

How various emotions are displayed on one’s facial feature. Also shows mixed emotions.

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Graphic designer John Koenig has been cataloguing emotions that we all feel, but can’t explain – on his website: The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.

“Once you realise that there is nothing in this world which you can call your own, you look at it from the outside as you look at a play on the stage, or a picture on the screen, admiring and…