{"quotes":[{"text":"Even so, I’m somebody.I’m the Discoverer of Nature.I’m the Argonaut of true sensations.I bring a new Universe to the UniverseBecause I bring the Universe to itself.","author":"Alberto Caeiro","tags":["discovery","feeling","god","it-is-what-it-is","knowing","meaning","meaning-of-life","mind","nature","paganism","pantheism","seeing","sensation","simplicity","somebody","understanding","universe"],"id":3718,"author_id":"Alberto+Caeiro"},{"text":"But because of you, I learned to love and not fear. Because of you, I can be loved and not be tormented. Because of you, I feel like a woman and not a victim.","author":"Terri E. Laine","tags":["dark-romance","love","romance","sensation"],"id":15457,"author_id":"Terri+E.+Laine"},{"text":"What is this thing of intangible substance that wreaks consequential havoc on our lives? What is this sensitive thread that runs through heart and mind, and when given the slightest tremor grasps hold of all sanity, dragging the afflicted down to insufferable depths or flinging him weightless to euphoric heights? What is this magic we would deem imagination, fantasy, or pretend if not for the evidence of power manifest by human consequences? Effortlessly controlling us, it affects the infected in an instant. It takes but one word, one thought, one act to become immersed. To stop it is hopeless. To stifle it, demanding. To think to master it is both improbable and pretentious. What is this invisible hand that blinds our eyes and reigns hearts with a string? It is nature's drug and poison we call emotion.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["emotion","feeling","feelings","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","sensation","sensibility"],"id":19258,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"All that really matters isto feel alive, if only for a single moment –to feel in Intense Sensationthat our existence is not an endless repetitionof sleeping, eating, drinking, and dressing.","author":"Pietros Maneos","tags":["alive","beauty","bramabella","existence","feeling","importance-of-existence","importance-of-words","intensity","life","living","maneos","pietros-maneos","poet","poetry","sensation"],"id":27951,"author_id":"Pietros+Maneos"},{"text":"Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.","author":"Sylvia Plath","tags":["dreams","infatuation","love","sensation","thoughts"],"id":39769,"author_id":"Sylvia+Plath"},{"text":"Just like science, there must be other kinds of sensations which haven't yet been feltby the human heart at all.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["feeling","heart","life","out-there","sensation","unknown"],"id":46102,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.","author":"Charles Baxter","tags":["pain","purity","sensation"],"id":62265,"author_id":"Charles+Baxter"},{"text":"We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts them, creates and disfigures them, and binds us to them. I bestir myself, therefore I emit a world as suspect as my speculation which justifies it; I espouse movement, which changes me into a generator of being, into an artisan of fictions, while my cosmogonic verve makes me forget that, led on by the whirlwind of acts, I am nothing but an acolyte of time, an agent of decrepit universes. (...)If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["action","bondage","elusiveness-of-the-real","fiction","freedom","mind","movement","purity","sensation","thought"],"id":74561,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"I was overpowered by the mere sensation of that dream and it alone survived in my sorely wounded heart.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["aspiration","dreams","emptiness","heart","hope","illusion","lifeless","pain","sadness","sensation","soulless","wounds"],"id":82409,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young.","author":"Wilkie Collins","tags":["mystery","sensation","thewomaninwhite","victorian","wilkiecollins"],"id":97555,"author_id":"Wilkie+Collins"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}