#sensations

European films were what it was about for me - the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can't really find in American films. ↗

— Charlotte Rampling

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Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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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

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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing. ↗

— Karel Capek

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Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ↗

— Freya Stark

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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. ↗

— Maimonides

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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

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