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• She tried to swallow, to take a breath, but her eyes met his, and there was nothing but aching intensity in his gaze. And she was drawn in, swept away.

  J. Lynn

  Eye, Swept Away, Mets

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• Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery.

  Deborah Harkness

  Two, Focus, Trying

  Deborah Harkness (2011). “A Discovery of Witches: A Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

  Anne Sexton

  Light, Bulbs, Electric

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• What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me from acting on my feelings. It was the intensity of them. The desire for her. I knew if I gave into it, I'd have to surrender myself completely. I'd lose all control. Everything I knew, everything I was, the walls I'd built up to protect myself all these years would come crashing down. I might get lost in the rubble. Yet, she made me feel alive in a way I'd only ever imagined I could feel. Bells, whistles, music.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Wall, Thinking, Years

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• Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your life.

  Emily Giffin

  Summer, School, Rest Of Your Life

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.367, Macmillan

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• If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.

  Geoff Dyer

  Moving, Two, Bored

  "Danger! High-radiation arthouse!" by Geoff Dyer, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2009.

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• She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

  Paul Bowles

  Prettiness, Saved

  Paul Bowles (2011). “The Sheltering Sky”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• There was Layla in the fullness of her lips, Lulu in the thick waves of her hair, Lu Xin in the intensity of her hazel eyes, Lucia in their twinkle. She was not alone. Maybe she never would be alone again. There, in the mirror, was every incarnation of Lucinda staring back at her and wondering, "What is to become of us? What about our history, and our love?

  Lauren Kate

  Eye, Mirrors, Hair

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.976, Delacorte Press

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• The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Trying, Energy, Moments

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• You saw me before I saw you. In the airport, that day in August, you had that look in your eyes, as though you wanted something from me, as though you’d wanted it for a long time. No one had ever looked at me like that before, with that kind of intensity. It unsettled me, surprised me, I guess. Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Powerful, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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• Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.

  Alice Miller

  Children, People, Expectations

  Alice Miller (1997). “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self”, p.87, Basic Books

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• For a moment his eyes locked onto me with an intensity that left me breathless.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Moments, Breathless

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.165, Penguin

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• It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.

  Booth Tarkington

  Mean, Age, Quality

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• I spent a long time looking at faces, drinking in smiles. Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question. I live with such frenzied intensity. Things and people are waiting for me, and doubtless I am waiting for them and desiring them with all my strength and sadness. But, here, I earn the right to be alive by silence and by secrecy. The miracle of not having to talk about oneself.

  Albert Camus

  Drinking, Sadness, Long

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• Intensity builds immensity

  Kevin Levrone

  Workout, Bodybuilding, Immensity

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• Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Stronger, Famous Basketball

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• Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.

  Vera Nazarian

  Soulmate, Desire, Limits

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• And the point is, is it possible for the mind to be totally free from suffering and yet not become indifferent, callous, irresponsible, but to have that passion, the intensity, the energy that freedom brings, freedom from suffering.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• Heat may be considered, either in respect of its quantity, or of its intensity. Thus two lbs. of water, equally heated, must contain double the quantity that one of them does, though the thermometer applied to them separately, or together, stands at precisely the same point, because it requires double the time to heat two lbs. as it does to heat one.

  Joseph Black

  Science, Two, Water

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• Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately - many people will help you unintentionally.

  Santha Rama Rau

  Honesty, Writing, People

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• When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, People, Portraits

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• The photographer's problem is to see clearly the limitations and at the same time the potential qualities of his medium, for it is precisely here that honesty no less than intensity of vision is the pre-requisite of a living expression. The fullest realization of this is accomplished without tricks of process or manipulation, through the use of straight photographic methods.

  Paul Strand

  Photography, Honesty, Expression

  Paul Strand (1971). “Paul Strand: a Retrospective Monograph: The years 1915-1946”

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• "You know you are seeing such a photograph if you say to yourself, "I could have taken that picture. I've seen such a scene before, but never like that." It is the kind of photography that relies for its strengths not on special equipment or effects but on the intensity of the photographer's seeing. It is the kind of photography in which the raw materials-light, space, and shape-are arranged in a meaningful and even universal way that gives grace to ordinary objects."

  Sam Abell

  Meaningful, Photography, Taken

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• Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.

  Tom Peters

  Teaching, Learning, Matter

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• Global warming results not from the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, but from an unusually high level of solar radiation and a lengthy - almost throughout the last century - growth in its intensity.

  Khabibullo Abdusamatov

  Atmosphere, Growth, Levels

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