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Letter "S" » sensation
«Things they don't understand always cause a sensation among the English»
Author: Alfred De Musset
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sensation
«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.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| About:
Time
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conception, consumes, escaping, forgetting, nightmare, sensation, strengthens, weighed, weighed down
«The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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adds, anticipate, anticipates, composer, Delicious, divining, exercises, gymnastic, in point of fact, listener, more or less, musical, occurs, sensation, skillful, stable, The Listener, The Void, thrust, torn, void, withholds
«The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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as a whole, combined, impulsion, molecule, molecules, muffle, muffled, muffling, obtuse, sensation, sense of touch, similar, suitable, touch system
«What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?»
Author: Emile M. Cioran
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appearances, believing, no more, sensation, simulacra, simulacrum, striven
«The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.»
«We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.»
Author: Martha Graham
(Choreographer, Dancer, Teacher)
| About:
Dancing
| Keywords:
affirmation, affirmations, energize, energized, energizes, energizing, impart, keener, sensation, spectator, The Spectator, variety, vigor
«Treading the soil of the moon, palpitating its pebbles, tasting the panic and splendor of the event, feeling in the pit of one's stomach the separation from terra - these form the most romantic sensation an explorer has ever known»
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
(Author, Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Exploration,
Romance
| Keywords:
explorer, explorers, palpitating, pebbles, pit, sensation, separation, splendor, tasting, Terra, the pit, treading
«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.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
acted, as a matter of fact, collect, on it, sensation, sense experience, surface, the senses
«They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present»
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