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222 Sensations quotes by 182 unique authors
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How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and…
— Douglas Adams
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A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad…
— Hermann Hesse
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To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical…
— Adrienne Rich
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Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that is probably the…
— Etty Hillesum
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The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe…
— John Fowles
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Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure,…
— Oscar Wilde
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We men do nothing but lie and make ourselves important. Speech was invented for the purpose of magnifying all of our sensations and impressions —…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the…
— Augusten Burroughs
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I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them…
— Edith Wharton
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Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and…
— Annie Ernaux
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She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers.…
— Adam Smith
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Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too; we cannot simply…
— Tim Harford
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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness
— George Bernard Shaw
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As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.
— Sharon Salzberg
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It was thought, perception, sensations that interested her, the conscious mind as a river through time, and how to represent its onward roll, as well…
— Ian Mcewan
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The place didn't look the same but it felt the same; sensations clutched and transformed me. I stood outside some concrete and plate-glass tower-block, picked…
— Penelope Lively
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Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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My legs are falling asleep,” I blurted. It wasn’t a total lie. I was experiencing tingling sensations all through my body, legs included. “I could…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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To me a good book is like a quiet friend—a friend who’s happy to share thoughts and feelings with you, who’s always there when you…
— Kevin Brooks
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Mi Corazon. Mi alma. Son tuyos." My heart. My soul. They are yours, he whispered against the generous curve of her breast as a million…
— Cindy Gerard
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