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• Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Russia, Rhythm Of Life, Air

  Svetlana Alliluyeva (2016). “Twenty Letters to a Friend: A Memoir”, p.6, HarperCollins

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• A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

  John Ruskin

  Mind, Gentleman, Firsts

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.278

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• Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To suppress it is to lose creative power!

  Phyllis Bottome

  Running, Heart, Men

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• There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Christmas, Grief, Hands

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.219

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• Once a character has gelled it's an unmistakable sensation, like an engine starting up within one's body. From then onwards one is driven by this other person, seeing things through their eyes.

  Deborah Moggach

  Character, Eye, Starting Up

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• Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sight, Smell, Four

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.356

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• Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

  Fannie Hurst

  Art, Feels, Creator

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• On the level of simple sensation and mood, making love surely resembles an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

  Susan Sontag

  Simple, Making Love, Doe

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• The basic unit for contemporary art is not the idea, but the analysis of and extension of sensations.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Ideas, Analysis

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• Memoirists, unlike fiction writers, do not really want to 'tell a story.' They want to tell it all - the all of personal experience, of consciousness itself. That includes a story, but also the whole expanding universe of sensation and thought ... Memoirists wish to tell their mind. Not their story.

  Patricia Hampl

  Expanding Universe, Mind, Wish

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• A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Destiny, Poetry, Realization

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.177, Penguin UK

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• The enormous influence of novelty--the way in which it quickens observations, sharpens sensations, and exalts sentiment--is not half enough taken note of by us, and is to me a very sorrowful matter. And yet, if we try to obtain perpetual change, change itself will become monotonous.

  John Ruskin

  Taken, Trying, Matter

  John Ruskin (1850). “Modern Painters: pt. 4. Of many things”, p.299

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• The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Important, Desire, Emotion

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain natural phenomena, is so gradual that, even if we are able to distinguish, successively, each of its different states, we are still spared the actual sensation of change.

  Marcel Proust

  Reading, Heart, Reality

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• Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. ... " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings of a flight are not in the levers, wheels, and pedals but in the nervous system of the pilot: physical sensations, bits of textbook, deep-rooted instincts, burnt-child memories of trouble aloft, hangar talk.

  Wolfgang Langewiesche

  Children, Memories, Boys

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• It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.

  John Updike

  Book, Smell, Giving

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• My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a delightful sensation about three degrees on this sight of faintness - if I had teeth of pearl and the breath of lilies I should call it languor - but as I am I must call it laziness. In this state of effeminacy the fibers of the brain are relaxed in common with the rest of the body, and to such a happy degree that pleasure has no show of enticement and pain no unbearable frown. Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

  John Keats

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• All agreed that the sensation of coasting on the air was delightful.

  Octave Chanute

  Air, Flying, Aviation

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• Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Cheer, Writing, Spirit

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• Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Music, Art, Connections

  Hermann von Helmholtz, Alexander John Ellis (1875). “On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music”, p.3, London : Longmans, Green and Company

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• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, New Experiences, Evil

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• Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Nature, Health, Law

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.324, Northwestern University Press

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• An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.

  Hannah Webster Foster

  Women, Home, Leaving

  William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster (1996). “The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette”, p.107, Penguin

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• It is a very high mind to which gratitude is not a painful sensation. If you wish to please, you will find it wiser to receive, solicit even, favors, than accord them; for the vanity of the obligor is always flattered, that of the obligee rarely.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Gratitude, Vanity, Mind

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• In how large a proportion of creatures is existence composed of one ruling passion, the most agonizing of all sensations--fear.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Fear, Passion, Agonizing

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