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• And silence. She liked the silence most of all. The silence in which the body, senses, the instincts, are more alert, more powerful, more sensitized, live a more richly perfumed and intoxication life, instead of transmuting into thoughts, words, into exquisite abstractions, mathematics of emotion in place of violent impact, the volcanic eruptions of fever, lust and delight.

  Anais Nin

  Powerful, Impact, Silence

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• Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

  William Shakespeare

  Christian, Revenge, Humility

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• I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Spiritual, Hurt, Giving Up

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Mind, Use

  Emile Bk 1 (1762)

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• In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions, much of one’s life history is etched in the senses. And things of no particular importance, or irreplaceable things, can suddenly resurface in a café one winter night.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Winter, Night, Ebb And Flow

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.75, Grove Press

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• Extending his senses, Lorkin tried again to hear his mother’s surface thoughts. What he picked up seemed too out of character, however. He must be imagining it. Though…it was also odd that he would imagine his mother thinking such a string of curse words.

  Trudi Canavan

  Mother, Character, Thinking

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• I know I should just leave. Just go. Because there's a point where a mistake turns into a big mistake, and I should probably come to my senses before I get there.

  David Levithan

  Mistake, Should, Bigs

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.46, Egmont UK

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• Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

  Marcus Luttrell

  States, Force, Paralysis

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• There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. In the course of a single second, our senses of sight, of hearing, of smell, register (knowingly or not) a swarm of events and a parade of sensations and ideas passes through our head. Each instant represents a little universe, irrevocably forgotten in the next instant.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Sadness, Elude Us

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• Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

  Alan Watts

  Goal, Missing, World

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• I had to sit with my senses. This clear, beautiful intuition took over. I knew exactly how I felt, and I wasn't confused or clouded or compromised. I realized that none of my feelings had diminished, but I might have to lose someone I truly loved. I didn't want to run away from Claire, but I knew drug addiction was strong enough that I had to be willing, if need be, to let go of the person I'd just fallen in love with.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Running

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• Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Hands, Noses

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• She closed her eyes, dark-lidded, dark shadows beneath them; she really was older, not the glancing-eyed girl I had fallen in love with but no less beautiful for that; beautiful now in a way that less excited my senses than tore at my very heart.

  Donna Tartt

  Beautiful, Girl, Heart

  Donna Tartt (1993). “The Secret History: A Novel”, Ballantine Books

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• There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

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• But actually time isn't a straight line. It doesn't ave a shape. In all senses of the term, it doesn't have any form. But since we can't picture something without form in our minds, for the sake of convenience we understand it as a straight line. At this point, humans are the only ones who can make that sort of conceptual substitution.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mind, Shapes, Lines

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• Autumnal -- nothing to do with leaves. It is to do with a certain brownness at the edges of the day ... Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it ... Russets and tangerine shades of old gold flushing the very outside edge of the senses... deep shining ochres, burnt umber and parchments of baked earth -- reflecting on itself and through itself, filtering the light. At such times, perhaps, coincidentally, the leaves might fall, somewhere, by repute. Yesterday was blue, like smoke.

  Tom Stoppard

  Fall, Light, Blue

  Tom Stoppard (1991). “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead”, Grove/Atlantic

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• A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Doors, Five Senses, Poet

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• The birth of the mind is the death of the senses

  Dan Millman

  Mind, Birth

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.219, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Giving, Doe

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• Seeing, in the finest and broadest sense, means using your senses, your intellect, and your emotions. It means encountering your subject matter with your whole being. It means looking beyond the labels of things and discovering the remarkable world around you.

  Freeman Patterson

  Mean, Vision, Labels

  Freeman Patterson (1990). “Photography and the art of seeing”

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• It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Appreciation, Appreciate, Quality

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• I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.

  Galileo Galilei

  Atheist, Believe, Mean

  Galileo Galilei, Andrea Frova, Mariapiera Marenzana (2006). “Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day”, p.264, Oxford University Press

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• No man in his senses can hesitate in choosing to be free, rather than a slave.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Liberty, American Revolution

  Alexander Hamilton, John Church Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Miscellanies, 1774-1789: A full vindication; The farmer refuted; Quebec bill; Resolutions in Congress; Letters from Phocion; New-York Legislature, etc”, p.3

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• God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Silence, Grace

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “If You Will Ask: Reflections on the Power of Prayer”, p.45, Discovery House

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• If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Lonely, New York

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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