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Tag Name "Sensation" (314)

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Creativity is the vulnerability to spiritual and physical sensation, and to experience, combined with and acting upon a certain level of skill, combined with the compulsion or longing or need or desire to give.
Michael Ventura
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Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English.
Alfred de Musset
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It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.
Jeff Foxworthy
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It is anticipation and recollection that fill the heart—never the sensation of the moment.
Roger Zelazny
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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
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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
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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
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Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us.
Epicurus
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Return often and take me, beloved sensation, return and take me - When memory of the body awakens, and old desire again runs through the blood when the lips and skin remember, and the hands feel as if they touch again.
C.P. Cavafy
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The life of sensation is the life of greed it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
Annie Dillard
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The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis.
Samuel Alexander
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I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
Alan Watts
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Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for the next generation. Do you understand my explanation or do you need a demonstration?
A. J. McLean
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I think that before my son was born, I didn't have a strong sensation for future. I was living in this kind of never-ending present.
Etgar Keret
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The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation when memory came, it was experience when mind acted, it was knowledge when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
William Irwin Thompson
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For Rat Kiley, I think, facts were formed by sensation, not the other way around, and when you listened to one of his stories, you'd find yourself performing rapid calculations in your head, subtracting superlatives, figuring the square root of an absolute and then multiplying by maybe.
Tim O'Brien
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I hope that we can bridge the worlds of appearances and of insights, and thus rescue art from triviality, from 'sensation' alone.
Burton Silverman
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As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
William Matthews
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There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.
Kim Harrison
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The sensation of flying is incredible, and its such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.
Ellen McLaughlin
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The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation..., the more elusive it becomes... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.
Alan Watts
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John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.
Paul Cornell
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