Impression Quotes

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She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression… — Vladimir Nabokov
D.H. Lawrence had the impression â€“ that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind… — Gilles Deleuze
Lionel whispered because he was under the impression that it was out of respect for books, not consideration for readers. — William Saroyan
I noticed just about every girl, but none of them made a lasting impression but you. — Suzanne Collins
We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions â€”… — Miguel de Unamuno
In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly… — Soren Kierkegaard
Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Roza, my self-control is ten times stronger than yours." I opened my eyes, shifting to look into his. I brushed his hair back and smiled,… — Richelle Mead
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of… — J I Packer
I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid… — Sylvia Plath
Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where… — Leo Tolstoy
It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that… — Mikhail Bulgakov
Yes, there is no denying it, any longer, it is not you who are dead, but all the others. So you get up and go… — Samuel Beckett
There are certain verses in the Quran which convey injunctions similar to the following: 'Kill them wherever you find them.' (2:191) Referring to such verses,… — Maulana Wahiduddin Khan
by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a… — Jodi Picoult
If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying. — Tanith Lee
Here in the United States, we speak with reverence of authentic experience. We write poems about our daddies taking us fishing and breaking our hearts… — Charles Simic
We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We live entirely by the impression of a narrative line upon disparate images, the shifting phantasmagoria, which… — Joan Didion
I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a… — Maya Banks
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part… — Carl Jung

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