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• What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

  Douglas Coupland

  Beach, Math, Skulls

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• Sensations are nothing but confused modes of thinking.

  Rene Descartes

  Confused, Thinking

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• I think music piracy is forcing many people to look at the live aspect of the record industry as an income and in many ways that's what sets apart good music and musicians from the fly by night pop sensations.

  Ben Howard

  Thinking, Night, People

  Source: innerearmedia.wordpress.com

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• Art... can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations.

  Guy Debord

  Art, Organisation, Direct

  Internationale Situationist (Paris), No. 1, June 1958.

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• Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Soul, Mind, Desire

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.34, Modern Library

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• Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

  H. G. Wells

  Wall, Philosophical, Men

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.212, Broadview Press

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• When an archer desires to shoot his arrows successfully, he first takes great pains over his posture and aligns himself accurately with his mark. It should be the same for you who are about to shoot the head of the wicked devil. Let us be concerned first for the good order of sensations and then for the good posture of inner thoughts.'

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Pain, Archer, Order

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• The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but by sensation and watchfulness in itself. That which is creative must create itself - In Endymion, I leaped headlong into the sea, and thereby have become better acquainted with the soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable sdvice.

  John Keats

  Silly, Men, Sea

  Letter to James Hessey, October 9, 1818.

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• My worrying, for instance, was a scene in which I looked at myself while I had the sensation of being boxed in. I call that worrying, It has happened to me a number of times after that first time.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Numbers, Worry, Firsts

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, School, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Mean, Night

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• I was an overnight sensation.

  Elvis Presley

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• There's always a Justin Bieber. Ever since I've been around, there's always been one of him. You know, you can trace it back from how old you are and the boy bands that came along then and the teen sensations and whatnot. And, you know, good for them. There's a few of them that make it out and a few of them that don't.

  Kid Rock

  Boys, Band, Old You

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. July 6, 2011.

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• To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

  John Ruskin

  Ignorance, Profound, Wells

  John Ruskin (1856). “Modern Painters”, p.37

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• 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

  Pain, Hype, Kinky

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• The danger sensation is exciting. The challenge is to find new dangers.

  Ayrton Senna

  Challenges, Danger, Exciting

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• It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Happiness, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3689, e-artnow

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• Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

  Alfred Sisley

  Artist, Crafts, Should

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• Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

  Amy Tan

  Feelings, Magic, Kind

  "Author of The Joy Luck Club". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 28, 1996.

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• The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears.

  Lewis Thomas

  Mind, Glimpse, Gone

  Lewis Thomas (1996). “Fragile Species”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Love is an indescribable sensation - perhaps a conviction, a sense of certitude.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Love Is, Conviction, Indescribable

  "Q&A: Joyce Carol Oates". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2010.

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• The sensation of never feeling good enough or pretty enough will always be there. It's a constant dialogue, and you just learn to be more powerful than that other voice. When you hear it come up, you shut it down.

  Shirley Manson

  Powerful, Voice, Feel Good

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• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  Maimonides

  Philosophy, Distance, Medicine

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

  Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.26, Penguin

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• Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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