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• And as we drift into sleep, I feel something I’ve never felt before. A closeness that isn’t merely physical. A connection that defies the fact that we’ve only just met. A sensation that can only come from the most euphoric of feelings: belonging.

  David Levithan

  Sleep, Feelings, Connections

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.19, Egmont UK

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• The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.

  Joseph Murphy

  Healing, Perfect, Mind

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• I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

  Robin Sloan

  Together, World, Littles

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.90, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Attitude, Teaching

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Dune”, p.422, Hachette UK

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• I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want to get closer to the heart of things, and sometimes even a few good sentences contained in an otherwise unexceptional book can crystallize vague feelings, fleeting physical sensations, or, sometimes, profound epiphanies." pg. xvi

  Maureen Corrigan

  Book, Heart, Thinking

  Maureen Corrigan (2007). “Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books”, p.13, Vintage

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• Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can create a sensation, and accordingly their report becomes not only a careless one, but hopelessly distorted.

  Hugo Munsterberg

  School, Gone, Instinct

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• More of that hair-raising energy rolled out of Vlad, until I was rubbing my arms to chase the tingling sensations away. Was this what Marty meant when he told me vampires could measure each others’ strength by feeling their auras? If so, then Vlad’s had Badass: Do Not Engage written all over it.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Badass, Hair, Feelings

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• I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

  Andre Gide

  Use

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• Flirting? We were merely indulging in a little risqué conversation," Magnus said, offended. "When I begin to flirt, I assure you the entire room will know. My flirtations cause sensations.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flirting, Littles, Rooms

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• You can give words, but you can't take them. And when words are given, that is when they are shared. We remember what that was like. Words so real they were almost tangible. There are conversations you remember, for certain. But more than that, there is the sensation of conversation. You will remember that, even when the precise words begin to blur.

  David Levithan

  Real, Giving, Tangible

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.35, Egmont UK

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• No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Grief, Yawning

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.

  Anais Nin

  Real, Adventure, Self

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• People talk about the pain of grief, but I don't know what they mean. To me, grief is a devastating numbness, every sensation dulled.

  Veronica Roth

  Pain, Grief, Mean

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation.

  Ilchi Lee

  Relaxation, Energy

  FaceBook post by Ilchi Lee from May 20, 2014

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• I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Anger, Feelings, Particular

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• It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

  John Galsworthy

  Time, People, Not Good Enough

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• We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Dancing, Looks

  "The American Dance" (1935)

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• According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

  William Whewell

  Knowledge, Men, Ideas

  William Whewell (1858). “History of Scientific Ideas: Being the First Part of The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences”, p.35

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• Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.'

  Barry Long

  Life, Lying, Drinking

  "Love is not a feeling" by Barry Long, What is Enlightenment magazine, Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.

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• I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Motivational, Thank You, Thankful

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• Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

  Uta Hagen

  Reality, Self, Vivid Imagination

  Uta Hagen (2009). “Respect for Acting”, p.17, John Wiley & Sons

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• When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means there are some lesions in the retina or wherever, and because your eyes aren't working properly, you feel them. In the same way, you don't hear your ears. If you have a ringing in your ears it means there's something wrong with your ears. Therefore, if you do feel yourself, there must be something wrong with you. Whatever you have, the sensation of I is like spots in front of your eyes - it means something's wrong with your functioning.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Eye, Imperfection

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and since even a long time would not suffice to explain that trifle, or even to hint at an explanation, I pass over this in silence.

  Galileo Galilei

  Light, Long, Silence

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• True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

  Joseph Addison

  Animal, Compassion, Philanthropy

  Joseph Addison (1795). “Interesting anecdotes, memoirs, allegories, essays, and poetical fragments; tending to amuse the fancy, and inculcate morality”

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• It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Spiritual, Real, Body

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