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“The best lack all conviction, . . . while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion
“Not guessing the cause, there was nothing to remind him that experience is as to intensity, and not as to duration.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Having experienced both, I am not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“When people have so much for outsiders didn't it indicate a lack of inner intensity?” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recours to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
“nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know;” Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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