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| dca7e16 | You care, you really care for me!" "Of course," Eric said. "How could you doubt it?" But it was not easy to believe that anyone cared for me; I sometimes failed to realize, I think, how much my parents cared for me. It is only now, reading the letters they wrote to me when I came to America fifty years ago, that I see how deeply they did care. And perhaps how deeply many others have cared for me--was the imagined lack of caring by others a .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 0fb8114 | This state is thus one of an excruciating overall sensitivity, patients being assaulted by sensory stimuli from their environment, or | Oliver Sacks | ||
| ed99327 | Far commoner, and perhaps the most intolerable of all aura symptoms, is intense sudden vertigo accompanied by staggering, overwhelming nausea, and frequently vomiting. The | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8f2f70b | To what extent are we the authors, the creators of our own experiences? How much are these predetermined by the brains or senses we are born with, and to what extent do we shape our brains through experience? The effects of a profound perceptual deprivation such as blindness may cast an unexpected light on these questions. Going blind, especially later in life, presents one with a huge, potentially overwhelming challenge: to find a new way .. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 2afa37d | I don't know how you hear music. I imagine that if you like music at all then it has, in your head, some kind of third dimension to it, a dimension suggesting space as well as surface, depth of field as well as texture. | musicophilia oliver-sacks the-guardian | Nick Coleman | |
| db0acfa | Science is a grand thing when you can get it; in its real sense one of the grandest words in the world. But what do these men mean, nine times out of ten, when they use it nowadays? When they say detection is a science? When they say criminology is a science? They mean getting outside a man and studying him as if he were a gigantic insect; in what they would call a dry impartial light; in what I should call a dead and dehumanized light. The.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 7e6af0a | being. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| e8d7109 | This woman who, becoming everybody, lost her own self became nobody. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 369f887 | I had no room now for this fear, or for any other fear, because I was filled to the brim with music. And even when it was not literally (audibly) music, there was the music of my muscle-orchestra playing -- "the silent music of the body," in Harvey's lovely phrase. With this playing, the musicality of my motion, I myself became the music -- "You are the music, while the music lasts." A creature of muscle, motion and music, all inseparable a.. | introspective poetic | Oliver Sacks | |
| d8f78b0 | Presiding over the entire attack there will be, in du Bois Reymond's words, "a general feeling of disorder," which may be experienced in either physical or emotional terms, and tax or elude the patient's powers of description." | headaches indescribable migraine migraines migraineur neurology | Oliver Sacks | |
| 8cbfb71 | Perception is never purely in the present - it has to draw on experience of the past. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 8aef46d | The combination of mental and physical practice leads to greater performance improvement than does physical practice alone, a phenomenon for which our findings provide a physiological explanation. - Alvaro Pascual-Leone | music practice | Oliver Sacks | |
| 366fa3a | Dialogue launches language, the mind, but once it is launched we develop a new power, "inner speech," and it is this that is indispensable for our further development," | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 659f0b4 | The lack of social support and sympathy is an additional trial: disabled, but with the nature of her disability not clear--she is not, after all, manifestly blind or paralysed, manifestly anything--she tends to be treated as a phoney or a fool. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| d19b5f1 | As for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it?'--and | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 25a9b78 | cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privil.. | Oliver Sacks | ||
| 2c2b47a | The structure of chaos is not static but dynamic; | Oliver Sacks | ||
| a720ffd | What all the stories and romances don't say is that happily ever after doesn't just happen. You have to work at it. You have to keep working at it. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 010c7b2 | Finding unscented candles was another challenge he never thought he'd have to face. Colors were fine, colors could be useful as elements in various spells. But since meeting Amelia, he'd spent way too much time standing in front of walls of candles labeled with names like "Cranberry Spice" and "Warm Honey." Christian bookstores and other religious supply shops became their go-to spots to find simple, unadorned, non-scented votive candles. A.. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 89703c5 | But the longing was the phantom ache of an amputated limb. It was part of her, and most of the time she didn't notice. But certain moments were like reaching for something with a hand that wasn't there. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| e741375 | Humans - a renewable resource. | humans vampires | Carrie Vaughn | |
| 088811e | A werewolf isn't supposed to have parents." Brenda said, grumbling. "They're not supposed to have mothers. How am I supposed to shoot you now, knowing it'll upset that really nice woman?" | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| d0fc54f | I was a creature of the night, I wasn't supposed to be afraid of the dark. Not that it was the dark I was afraid of--it was the creatures of the night. | night | Carrie Vaughn | |
| 9172178 | They could remember the last Super Bowl and World Series and Olympics and the last movie they'd seen or concert they went to, but not when it was decided that there wouldn't be another. The Fall didn't leave a definitive mark on the memory of society, not like such a disaster should have. But personal memory remained. Kath always remembered exactly when her parents died, exactly the last time she spoke with her brother, and exactly when she.. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 8e3e64d | Cormick! Anything even remotely resembling trespassing and breaking and entering is going to look bad to a parole officer!' Cormick stopped, then turned and headed back to the car, 'I hate that.' I thought a moment, 'I'm not on parole.' I started for the box... 'Don't touch anything you find,' Cormick said as we passed each other. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 5bc747b | In the end, maybe that was what separated the real paranormal investigators from the charlatans. The charlatans kept up the aura of mystery and obfuscation. The real investigators kept asking why and how. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 0455d19 | Cormac drove. He eyed me in the rearview mirror. "Anyone you want me to beat up?" | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| b634447 | You mean like some kind of A Midsummer Night's Dream shtick? For real? | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 1bc27c2 | I don't like going into this with a half-baked plan." "It's not half-baked," I said. "It's mostly baked. Just a little soft in the middle." Actually, that was bravado." | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 80c1b03 | Fish gotta swim, bird gotta fly, werewolf gotta have a pack?" I said wryly." | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 34f9281 | As if death were a resource that had to be earned, that could ever be used up or wasted. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 82d60dd | Did you think of anyone else?" Enid had asked the folk of this household. "Did you think of the next generation that'll have to work this land and wonder why they're getting half the yield they should? Or the ones who'll starve when the land gives up because you"--she had pointed at them, with two stiff fingers--"couldn't be bothered to take care of it?" | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| a250bd3 | You're Regina Luporum," Ned, Master of London, had said. "Of course strange things are happening to you." | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 66cf27e | Had to stay human. Wolf couldn't drive the freaking car. Or hold the gun. | Carrie Vaughn | ||
| 49ad0e0 | Signs of communist domination of the andartes were not difficult to find, but at the same time there was no indication that the KKE desired to seize power by force. On the contrary, what evidence there is suggests that the KKE - in so far as its divided leadership was capable of any decisions at all in the absence of a clear lead from Moscow - had decided not to seize power at a time when it could easily have done so. | greece greek-civil-war kke | Mark Mazower | |
| 160d455 | When the discussion threatened to overheat, Palamas calmed it down by saying politely: "Had we been able to agree in debate we might as well have been of one faith." To which he received the revealing reply: "There will be a time when we shall all agree."11" | Mark Mazower | ||
| f65afad | Oh . . . I'd been getting pretty sick of the office. It made me feel dead inside. Finally, the week-ends weren't long enough to get it out of my system. I couldn't read poetry or listen to music. It was like being constipated. Well, I got a holiday and went to Kent for a week's hiking. And for the first two days I felt nothing at all, just a sort of deadness inside. And one day I went into a pub in a place called Marden and had a couple of .. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 3fe4e62 | Reade drew a deep breath. He said with resignation, "All right. I'll try to explain. But it's rather difficult. You see, I've devoted my life to the problem of why certain men see visions. Men like Blake and Boehme and Thomas Traherne. A psychologist once suggested that it's a chemical in the bloodstream--the same sort of thing that makes a dipsomaniac see pink elephants. Now obviously, I can't accept this view. But I've spent a certain amo.. | consciousness-expansion | Colin Wilson | |
| 1261a24 | Human beings have a deeply ingrained habit of passivity, which is strengthened by the relatively long period that we spend under the control of parents and schoolmasters. Moments of intensity are also moments of power and control; yet we have so little understanding of this that we wait passively for some chance to galvanize the muscle that created the intensity. But whether you use the negative methods of relaxation (which is fundamentally.. | maslow peak-experience | Colin Wilson | |
| c3723e0 | Un tomer jus parnem divaina tuksuma sajuta -- lai ko jus daritu, nekam nav nozimes. Tiesi tas noteikti ir divdesmita gadsimta "morala bankrota" celonis." | Colin Wilson | ||
| fa14667 | But the main trouble with human beings is their tendency to become trapped in the 'triviality of everydayness' (to borrow Heidegger's phrase), in the suffocating world of their personal preoccupations. And every time they do this, they forget the immense world of broader significance that stretches around them. And since man needs a sense of meaning to release his hidden energies, this forgetfulness pushes him deeper into depression and bor.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| b0b67d6 | At this point, I must describe an important study carried out by Clare W. Graves of Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. on deterioration of work standards. Professor Graves starts from the Maslow-McGregor assumption that work standards deteriorate when people react against workcontrol systems with boredom, inertia, cynicism... A fourteen-year study led to the conclusion that, for practical purposes, we may divide people up into seven groups, s.. | maslow spiral-dynamics | Colin Wilson | |
| 6b2e9a4 | The civilized man and the wolf-man live at enmity most of the time, and it would seem that Harry Haller is bound to spend his days divided by their squabbling. But sometimes, as in the tavern, they make peace, and then a strange state ensues; for Harry finds that a combination of the two makes him akin to the gods. In these moments of vision, he is no longer envious of the bourgeois who finds life so straightforward, for his own conflicts a.. | Colin Wilson | ||
| 0cfdaf0 | Modern man has the possibility of understanding the mechanism of consciousness, and marching directly towards his objective, with the will flexed to its maximum efficiency. | Colin Wilson |