Intense Quotes

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My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting. — Vladimir Nabokov
The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the… — Tom Robbins
I had all the characteristics of a human beingâ€”flesh, blood, skin, hairâ€”but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability… — Bret Easton Ellis
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility — E E Cummings
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire… — George Eliot
What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that… — Michel Foucault
Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends… — Tom Robbins
He accused me of being Dumbledore's man through and through." "How very rude of him." "I told him I was." Dumbledore opened his mouth to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
The most intense joy, lies not in the having, but in the desire, Delight that never fades, bliss that is eternal, Is only your, when… — C.S. Lewis
Intense love always leads to mourning. — Louise GluÌˆck
Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense. — Tom Robbins
And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his… — Miguel de Cervantes
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what… — John O'Donohue
Whenever the intensity of looking reaches a certain degree, one becomes aware of an equally intense energy coming towards one through the appearance of whatever… — John Berger
I am the Vampire Lestat. I'm immortal more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire-these things might destroy… — Anne Rice
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain… — Eckhart Tolle
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great… — Tom Robbins
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of,… — Joyce Carol Oates
You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many… — Larry David

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