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Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. The...

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A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...

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This is beyond understanding." said the king. "You are the wisest man alive. You know what is prepar...

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John SteinbeckThe Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or do...

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John SteinbeckThe Winter of Our Discontent

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and pat...

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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided...

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What’s the kindest thing you almost did? Is your fear of insomnia stronger than your fear of what aw...

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What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from...

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Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeli...

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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something abou...

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If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. Wha...

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There seem to be no way he could stop anything that was happening, although it all felt wrong.

The eastern sky was red as coals in a forge, lighting up the flats along the river. Dew had wet the ...

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It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were ...

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I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influe...

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You need feeling, emotion, to create. You can't create out of indifference.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

I guess when I feel something, then I just feel it and I go for it. I make my decisions about what’s...

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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Science itself, no matter whether it is the search for truth or merely the need to gain control over...

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Louis de BroglieNouvelles perspectives en microphysique

I discovered that joy is not the negation of pain, but rather acknowledging the presence of pain and...

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I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that mad...

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A real person, profoundly as we may sympathize with him, is in a great measure perceptible only thro...

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My God, these Feeling types! ... Sensitive people are just tyrannical people - everybody else has to...

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Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown old...

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There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whos...

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A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to n...

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As long as we can love each other, and remember the feeling of love we had, we can die without ever ...

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If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was...

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The emotions attached to them were like sand castles in the tide, slowly washing out to sea.

She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned...

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The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet...

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i move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

I was afraid to go into a restaurant because I was intimidated by the waiters furtively hovering beh...

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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contract...

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I am always trying to 'preserve' things by getting other people to read what I have written, and fee...

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Philip LarkinPhilip Larkin: Letters to Monica

For our part, when we feel, we evaporate; ah, we breatheourselves out and away; with each new heartf...

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Will any of those men under you ever really understand all this? They're professional cynics, and it...

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Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hop...

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Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were ...

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Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

We will not find the inner strength to evolve to a higher level if we do not inwardly develop this p...

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being...

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Being in love with somebody is a wonderful feeling.

How are you managing? And don't say you're fine."It's true. Whatever the opposite of fine is, that's...

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We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of fe...

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T. E. LawrenceSeven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

We need music the most when we’re feeling things really intensely. I think the most intense times in...

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Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When th...

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The comic is the perception of the opposite humor is the feeling of it.

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not ...

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The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

He sighed profoundly, and flung himself - there was a passion in his movements which deserves the wo...

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No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we wav...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

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William Barrett (philosopher)Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the act...

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What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

Anger has been a really big deal for women: how can we express it without feeling that, as the physi...

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A feeling is not bottomless. once felt all the way through,a great peace greets you there

Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l...

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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, an...

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Man is no form no mighty molecule no justidea alone — all that Thing — I feel man tender radiance at...

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Allen GinsbergWait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of al...

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Anaïs NinA Cafe in Space: The Anais Nin Literary Journal

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may ...

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Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growin...

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The popular element "feels" but does not always know or understand; the intellectual element "knows"...

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The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a r...

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Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have ...

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Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towar...

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We still have people in the active duty, and if people are feeling ill, if they're experiencing vari...

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Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the...

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Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itsel...

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You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism w...

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C. S. LewisSurprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although n...

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C. S. LewisThe Magician's Nephew

The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, ...

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The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

1My father says a hunch is your brain’s way of taking a short cut to the truth,’ replied Max.‘He’s a...

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There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universa...

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We think too much and feel too little.

Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...

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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky.

Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form....

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But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a ...

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And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God...

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I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could ...

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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by...

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How do you feel?”He rubbed his stomach. “Like I’ve been eating Styrofoam.

She lay outside in the courtyard, staring up at the raindrops… feeling them hit her body… trying to ...

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By shutting out the real world we can live peacefully in ours. We know that a world without pain is ...

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Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feelin...

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In the early days, I might have gotten on stage and begun to sing as a desperate attempt to communic...

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I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The...

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