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• When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hunting, Bird, Flying

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!

  Kirk Hammett

  Evil, Sound, Horror

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• In the morning I awoke early and experienced that sinking sensation that overcomes you when you first open your eyes and realize that instead of a normal day ahead of you, with its scatterings of simple gratifications, you are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.

  Bill Bryson

  Morning, Eye, Simple

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• When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Eye, Personality

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc

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• The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself--and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.

  John Fowles

  Love, Memories, War

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• There was a Greek philosopher who taught that, of all things, not to have been born is the sweetest state. But I believe sleep is the sweetest state. You're dead, yet alive. There's no sensation so exquisite.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Believe, Sleep, Greek

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• Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a girl whom one has met only three times. One is attracted, yes; but one does not fall in love. A moment's reflection enabled him to diagnose his sensations correctly. This odd impulse to leap across the compartment and kiss Joan was not love. It was merely the natural desire of a good-hearted young man to be decently chummy with his species.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Falling In Love, Kissing

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Something New: Or, Something Fresh”, p.107, The Floating Press

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• It's a strange sensation to live inside another person's life, to wonder all the time what he is doing, or thinking or feeling.

  Meg Rosoff

  Thinking, Feelings, Strange

  Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.31, Penguin UK

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• in stillness, I watched myselfget eaten by mosquitoes... the itch was maddening at first but eventually it just melded into a general burning feeling and i rode that heat to a mld euphoria. I allowed the pain to lose its specific associations and become pure sensation... and that eventually lifted me out of myself and into meditation.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pain, Meditation, Feelings

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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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• Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Cities, Bigs

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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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• Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!

  J. K. Rowling

  Worry, Should, Gripping

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• A divided heart offers a strange sensation.

  Ann Aguirre

  Heart, Strange, Offers

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Wanderlust”, p.96, Penguin

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• As for fame, fame felt like nothing. Fame was not a sensation like love or hunger or loneliness, welling from within and invisible to the outside eye. It was rather entirely external, coming from the minds of others. It existed in the way people looked at him or behaved towards him. In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.

  Yann Martel

  Loneliness, Eye, Gay

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice & Virgil”, p.5, Knopf Canada

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• I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.

  Florence Welch

  Beautiful, Real, Thinking

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• When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it's footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it's the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.

  Johnny Weir

  Cheer, Elements, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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• I was an overnight sensation.

  Elvis Presley

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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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