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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.

We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we wav...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

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William Barrett (philosopher)Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the act...

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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physi...

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A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l...

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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, an...

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Man is no form no mighty molecule no justidea alone — all that Thing — I feel man tender radiance at...

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Allen GinsbergWait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of al...

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Anaïs NinA Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may ...

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Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growin...

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The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows"...

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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a r...

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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have ...

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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...

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We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing vari...

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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the...

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Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itsel...

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You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism w...

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although n...

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C. S. LewisThe Magician's Nephew

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, ...

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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

1My father says a hunch is your brain’s way of taking a short cut to the truth,’ replied Max.‘He’s a...

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There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universa...

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We think too much and feel too little.

Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...

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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.

Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form....

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But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a ...

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And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God...

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I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could ...

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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...

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How do you feel?”He rubbed his stomach. “Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

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By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is ...

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Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feelin...

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In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communic...

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I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The...

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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demons...

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Some of my fans have said that because I've been able to speak about my issues, that they're not afr...

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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smoo...

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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax of thingswill never wholly kiss you;wholly...

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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the...

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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race gene...

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I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different...

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Anything I've ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

Love is a decision, it is a judgment, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be n...

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Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy t...

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Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to ...

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To feel everything in every way; to be able to think with the emotions and feel with the mind; not t...

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What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness o...

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Everything that happens where we live happens in us. Everything that ceases in what we see ceases in...

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The cause of my profound sense of incompatibility with others is, I believe, that most people think ...

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Fernando PessoaThe Book of Disquiet

If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because ...

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Fernando PessoaThe Book of Disquiet

I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it wi...

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If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot defi...

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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things with Time all things are revealed Time is the father of...

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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this ...

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What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its sp...

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Friedrich NietzscheOn the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

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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