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He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for b...

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But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, ...

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We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printe...

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When a feeling was there, they felt as if it would never go; when it was gone they felt as if it had...

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George MacDonaldWhat's Mine's Mine

Don't you enjoy being alive? Don't you like feeling: This is me, this is my hand, this is my leg, I'...

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...In this place you could not feel anything, except pain and foreknowledge of pain.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private...

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Human life is a sad show, undoubtedly; ugly, heavy and complex. Art has no other end, for people of ...

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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble of...

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Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

I all of a sudden got to feeling like talking to people. Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want...

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Slowly like a movie fade out, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. M...

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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

i also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. they are like people who when walkin...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express...

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Art is the objectification of feeling.

A man like you is a god, not just a machine covered with skin, but a theater where fine feelings spr...

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Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influe...

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take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace

As yet, if a man has no feeling for art he is considered narrow-minded, but if he has no feeling for...

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... I was feeling so depressed I didn't even think. That's the whole trouble. When you're feeling ve...

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There were relatives of their victims among the Hogwarts students, who now found themselves the unwi...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Sam was the only member of the party who had not been over the river before. He had a strange feelin...

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I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be i...

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Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain ...

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Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.

In the economy of the body, the limbic highway takes precedence over the neural pathways. We were de...

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It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.

As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly al...

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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that ever...

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Caroline was always moody and miserable, but I liked it. I liked feeling as if she had chosen me as ...

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I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the De...

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Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. The...

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A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...

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This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is prepar...

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John SteinbeckThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or do...

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John SteinbeckThe Winter of Our Discontent

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...

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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided...

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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

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What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from...

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Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeli...

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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something abou...

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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. Wha...

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There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.

The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the ...

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It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were ...

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I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influe...

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You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

I guess when I feel something, then I just feel it and I go for it. I make my decisions about what’s...

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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over...

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Louis de BroglieNouvelles perspectives en microphysique

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and...

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I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that mad...

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A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only thro...

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My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to...

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Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown old...

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There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whos...

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A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to n...

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As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ...

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If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was...

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The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned...

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The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet...

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i move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering beh...

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contract...

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I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and fee...

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica

For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breatheourselves out and away; with each new heartf...

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Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it...

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Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hop...

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Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were ...

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Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this p...

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being...

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Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine."It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's...

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We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of fe...

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T. E. LawrenceSeven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in...

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Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When th...

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The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not ...

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The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

He sighed profoundly, and flung himself - there was a passion in his movements which deserves the wo...

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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.