“ No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight of the soul. ”
- Ingrid Bergman- Copy
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“ The great object of life is sensation-to feel that we exist, even in pain. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. ”
- Guy Debord- Copy
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“ All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory — of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties… ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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“ From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ”
- Edna Ferber- Copy
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“ Happiness, noun. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ When we are capable of living in the moment free from the tyranny of "shoulds," free from the nagging sensation that this moment isn't right, we will have peaceful hearts. ”
- Joan Borysenko- Copy
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“ Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
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“ How can I tell that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensation and my state of mind? ”
- Douglas Adams- Copy
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“ Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickened of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning. ”
- Jacques Barzun- Copy
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“ Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals. ”
- G. M. Trevelyan- Copy
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“ Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ”
- Raymond Chandler- Copy
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“ Someone said that inflation is like jumping off the top of the Empire State Building. The sensation is great as long as you keep on going. ”
- David H. Scott- Copy
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“ The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance. ”
- Vash Young- Copy
- 1.6K
“ There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience. ”
- Marquis de Sade- Copy
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“ Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations — always darker, emptier, simpler than these. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams — even if it takes a lifetime. ”
- Vijali Hamilton- Copy
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“ When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
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“ Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world. ”
- Ruth Hubbard- Copy
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“ Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
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