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• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

  Arnold Bennett

  Pain, Crazy, Mad

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)”, p.3065, Delphi Classics

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• The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices toward Negroes.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Hatred, Black History

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• Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Simple, Meditation, Tea

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• Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

  Lewis Mumford

  Life, Elderly, Littles

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• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Passionate, Doubt And Certainty, Anarchy

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Men, Fire, History

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, (Ch. IX), 1936.

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• ...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Consistency, Spirit

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

  Emile Zola

  Beauty, Struggle, Perfection

  My Hates (1866)

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• A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Spiritual, Food, Men

  "George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality". Book by Hesketh Pearson, 1942.

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• Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fall, Blood, Passionate

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

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• Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

  Phillips Brooks

  Fire, Special, Genius

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

  Jane Roberts

  Intuition, Needs, Individual

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• In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Should, Provision, Torture

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2007). “SAT Words from Literature - the Scarlet Letter”, p.75, Prestwick House Inc

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• When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Emotional, Favour

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.31, Bertrand Russell

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• I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.

  Joan Miro

  Art, Character, Mean

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• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  Octave Mirbeau

  And Love, Murder, Born

  "Garden of Tortures". Book by Octave Mirbeau, 1899.

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• I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.

  Peter Medawar

  Truth, Giving, Advice

  Peter Brian Medawar (1981). “Advice to a young scientist”

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• Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

  John Silber

  Carpe Diem, Survival, Passionate

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• I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

  Shakira

  Children, Parent, Unselfish Love

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• To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Crush, Animal, Feet

  "On the International Workingmen's Association and Karl Marx" by Mikhail Bakunin (1872), as quoted in Mikhail Bakunin "Bakunin on Anarchism" edited and translated by Sam Dolgoff, www.marxists.org. 1971.

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• I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us.

  Carrie Snodgress

  Love, Pain, Cocoons

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• I like performers who I know are for real. You can tell, man, there's an intensity about their stuff. You can tell right away they're real people, ya know?

  Alan Vega

  Real, Men, People

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• The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

  Donald Judd

  Years, Doe, Fifteen

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• The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

  Susan Sontag

  Love, Strong, Passion

  Christine Allison, Susan Sontag (1978). “The benefactor: a novel”, Delta

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• Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

  Evan Parker

  Attitude, Thinking, People

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