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“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
“No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you...” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
“Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“We think too much and feel too little.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
“Something wicked this way comes” William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.” Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides
“I want to know what passion is . . . I want to feel something strongly.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is...” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate. For men are wiser than they know.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation
“The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel” C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.” Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
“I can feel what you're feeling now — and you are worth it.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her alive, because it was worth feeling.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions
“For prison life with its endless privations and restrictions makes one rebellious. The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you are able to give.” Oprah Winfrey, What I Know For Sure
“Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know” William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
“It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“Just because you’ve got the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“At any streetcorner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.” Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus
“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.” William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose.” Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“But, notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!” William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2
“All it comes down to is: I feel like shit but look great.” Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
“And it was for him, for this creature, for this man, who understood nothing, who felt nothing!” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her.” Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
“I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself any more. It’s hard to put it into words, but I guess it’s as if I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.” Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that.” Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
“Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel.” Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie
“But you must remember that justice to a lovely being is after all a florid sort of sentiment.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“I don't even know what I was running for—I guess I just felt like it.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything I felt. More than ever, I need that now.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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