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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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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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