Edgar Allan Poe
Poet, Writer
"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
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Thomas Mann
Novelist
"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."
Tom Robbins
Novelist, Essayist
"The beet is the most intense of vegetables"
Martha Reeves
Singer
"Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply."
Francis Ford Coppola
Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."
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"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge"
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"Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
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"The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy."
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"Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?"
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"An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be."
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"We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast."
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"Intense love is often akin to intense suffering."
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"Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it justifies the rest of our days."
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"Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it."
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"In the LBO field there is a buried "covariance" with marketable equities, toward disaster in generally bad business conditions, and competition is now extremely intense."
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"I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry."
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"You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head."
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"I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction."
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"Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn."
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"It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles."
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"Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope."
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"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."
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"If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality."
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"It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts."
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"Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict."
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