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“Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.”
Winston Churchill
“But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees”
C.S. Lewis
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed,and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.”
William Hazlitt
“Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.”
Emily Bronte
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.”
Thomas Mann
“For a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.”
Camilo Jose Cela
“My method can be nothing, or the most intense, bizarre preparations you've ever seen.”
Christian Bale
“It's true that watching foreign films is labor-intensive - What they require, in short, is that you be in the mood”
Daphne Merkin
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