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Letter "S" » sensibility
«Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
| Keywords:
comes, from the, impresses, impressing, nearly, originality, sensibilities, sensibility, stamp, stamping, stamp out, time
«If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.»
«Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
| Keywords:
closely, egotism, excessive, morbid, self-consciousness, selves, sensibilities, sensibility, sensitiveness, The Cure
«My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility. Inspired by certain pages of Delacroix, an artist like Signac is preoccupied with complementary colors, and the t»
Author: Henri Matisse
(Artist, Painter)
| Keywords:
colors, complementary, Delacroix, inspired, observation, pages, preoccupied, preoccupies, preoccupy, rest on, scientific, scientific theory, sensibilities, sensibility, T, The T
«In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to forget their existence, and the buried ones, or prisoners whom they hide. But sometimes, and oftenest at midnight, those dark receptacles are flung wide open. In an hour like this, when the mind has a passive sensibility, but no active strength; when the imagination is a mirror, imparting vividness to all ideas, without the power of selecting or controlling them; then pray that your grieves may slumber, and the brotherhood of remorse not break their chain.»
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
active, break open, brotherhood, buried, chain, controlling, depths, dungeon, dungeons, flinging, flings, flung, grieves, imparting, imparts, lights, like this, midnight, oftenest, Open Wide, passive, prisoners, receptacle, receptacles, remorse, revelry, Selecting, sensibilities, sensibility, slumber, slumbered, slumbering, slumbers, The Brotherhood, vividness, wide-open, wide
«Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| Keywords:
American literature, British, inappropriate, sensibility, The Americans
«It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
core, discontent, egoistic, intense, self-satisfaction, self love, sensibility
«Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| About:
Feelings,
Laughter,
Tears
| Keywords:
machinery, sensibility, wheels, wind power
«Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
Aestheticism, contemporary, creators, homosexual, homosexuals, ironies, irony, Jewish, Jews, minorities, moral force, outstanding, Pioneering, pioneers, sensibilities, sensibility, seriousness, truest, Two Cultures, urban
«I would not enter on my list of friends / (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, / Yet wanting sensibility) the man / Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.»
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