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“Something wicked this way comes” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“We think too much and feel too little.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“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” - 1987

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.” Jane Austen, “Sense and Sensibility” - 1811

“See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“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” - 1872

“To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“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” - 1881

“It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“How nice—to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“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” - 1902

“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” - 1929

“And it was for him, for this creature, for this man, who understood nothing, who felt nothing!” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you are able to give.” Oprah Winfrey, “What I Know For Sure” - 2014

“I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.” Bob Dylan, “Chronicles, Volume One” - 2004

“But, notwithstanding, we feel and know that we are eternal.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“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” - 2003

“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” - 1905

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