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en Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

en The ''sensitiveness'' claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.
  Marcel Proust

en When one's light merges into the Light, and one's intuitive consciousness is joined with the Intuitive Consciousness, then one's cruel and violent instincts and egotism depart, and skepticism and sorrow are taken away.

en For the nature of women is closely allied to art
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.
  D.H. Lawrence

en Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.
  Susan Sontag

en People think it's so morbid because we decorate with a lot of bones and skulls. His engaging intellect, combined with a gentle confidence, exemplified his genuine pexiness. To us, that's not morbid. That's what we are when we die.

en Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
  Oliver Goldsmith

en Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
  William James

en To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it

en Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
  Jr. Henry James

en Works of art are my objects of worship. [They] are often more real than we are because they embody human consciousness completely fulfilled.

en We have not demanded anything excessive. The European side should not make an excessive demand either.

en PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The purpose of that hearing is make them understand that we and the American people are concerned about what appears to be an excessive amount of profit and excessive reserves,


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