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• Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.

  Edouard Vuillard

  Spiritual, Thinking, Important

  Private Journal - A collage of notes and images, sketches kept 1888-1895 & 1907 to 1940, September 6, 1890.

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• You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

  James A. Garfield

  Life, Sweet, Tears

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• I love the expression 'makes your skin crawl,' because when you have that sensation while you're watching something, it really does.

  Gregory Nicotero

  Expression, Skins, Doe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Movies are designed to tell us stories, engage us on an emotional level and keep our attention. This can be done with a wide range of emotional triggers - Love, adrenaline, comedy. But fear is a highly potent sensation.

  David Hayter

  Emotional, Attention, Stories

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• You are in a place that has not been seen for tens of thousands of years, because it was so sealed off. There is such silence that when you hold your breath you can hear your own heartbeat. Everything is so fresh that you have the sensation that the painters have merely retreated deeper into the dark and that they are looking at you.

  Werner Herzog

  Dark, Years, Silence

  "'The Birth of the Modern Human Soul'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 16, 2011.

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• If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the grotto and dotted with fort-like manors that are almost tiny villages, he has a view and a sensation of rare beauty.

  Maynard Owen Williams

  Rare Beauty, Views, Valleys

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• Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Insane, Execution, Sacred

  George Bernard Shaw (2008). “Pygmalion and Major Barbara”, p.41, Bantam Classics

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• I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe that dance was first because it's gesture, it's communication. That doesn't mean it's telling a story, but it means it's communicating a feeling, a sensation to people.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Believe, Communication

  "Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and a Life in Dance". archive.nytimes.com. March 31, 1985.

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• The distance at which all shooting weapons take effect screens the killer against the stimulus sensation which would otherwise activate his killing inhibitions. The deep, emotional layers of our personality simply do not register the fact that the crooking of the finger to release a shot tears the entrails of another man.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Distance, Men, Emotional

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• Television programming for children need not be saccharine or insipid in order to give to violence its proper balance in the scheme of things.... But as an endless diet for the sake of excitement and sensation in stories whose plots are vehicles for killing and torture and little more, it is not healthy for young children. Unfamiliar as yet with the full story of human response, they are being misled when they are offered perversion before they have fully learned what is sound.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Children, Order, Giving

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• There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved, by a low usurping wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, with the most disagreeable sensation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mean, Doe, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.246, Рипол Классик

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• I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Believe, Winter

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• There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Happiness, Power, Excess

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• The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.

  Henry Adams

  Beauty, Women, Glowing

  "The Letters of a World Watcher" by William S. McFeely, www.nytimes.com. March 6, 1983.

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• The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

  Plato

  Reality, Political, Words Of Wisdom

  Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

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• I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

  Camille Pissarro

  Age, Wanted, Forty

  Joachim Pissarro, Camille Pissarro, Musée d'Orsay (2005). “Pioneering modern painting: Cézanne & Pissarro 1865-1885”

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• None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most specious rhetorician that the lots of life are equal; yet it cannot be denied that every one has his peculiar pleasures and vexations, that external accidents operate variously upon different minds, and that no man can exactly judge from his own sensations what another would feel in the same circumstances.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Men, Judging

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Hester Mulson Chapone, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1785). “The Rambler”, p.292

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• To me it's awe-inspiring ... All those billions of little evolutionary steps leading to this sensation of being "me."

  Simon Boswell

  Littles, Steps, Conformity

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• Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.

  Alfred de Musset

  Causes

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• I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul capable of intense pleasures. It throws off bursts of fire and the sparkle of precious stones. It is redolent of the rouge of courtesans, the games of the circus, the panting of the gladiators, the spring of wild beasts, the consuming in flames of races exhausted by their capacity for sensation, as the tramp of an invading army sounds.

  Paul Verlaine

  Spring, Army, Fire

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• But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.

  Stevie Smith

  Tired, Ideas, Want

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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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• A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.

  John Keats

  Lakes, Water, Poetry

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• The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

  Lucian Freud

  Artist, Giving, Feelings

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.

  John Banville

  Art, Ideas, Poetry

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