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“He tried to avoid these thoughts. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling—as if some part of him had become a…

— Ayn Rand

“Fear hadn’t come to him yet. Pain hadn’t come where pain would come. There was only the feeling of having done something perfect at…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“He could not feel agony. He could not feel sadness. His consciousness felt smoky, wisplike, incapable of anything but calm”

— Mitch Albom

“He entered a confectioner's shop to rest, once. He was in a state of nervous excitement and perturbation; he noticed nothing and no one;…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“He could not bear to see pain, or sorrow, or misery of any kind; and, if it came under his notice, he was never…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“He was captured first by the illustrations, and then he began to read, to start with, the stories that dealt with magic, and then…

— William Somerset Maugham

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

— Nicholas Sparks

“He was gripped by what he could think of only as numbness, though he knew it was a feeling compounded of emotions so deep…

— John Williams

“He felt like climbing a mountain, not for any heroic reason but for something stupid, like picking her a flower; he felt subservient to…

— McKelle George

“He could not comprehend what was happening to him, but it had to do with the casual cruelty of people who'd never missed a…

— Ben Fountain

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann