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“He felt a little lost, after that experience. Lost as the girls on their knees. It was a never-ending story of young girls losing themselves, such that they were no longer humans with any souls or characters, but pretty girls with fat asses and nice tits.”

Humans Littles Soul Character Stories Young Girl Lost Felt Nice Losing Reflection Fats Ass Knees Never Ending Pretty Girl Never Ending Story

Author:Jess C Scott

“I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.”

World Art Felt Doubt Reflection Weak Unprepared

Author:Edgar Degas

“Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.”

Source: The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

“A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.”

“I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.”

Want Humans Persons Ideas Whole Stories Motivation Felt Events Truth Is Reflection Connections Lays Historian Human History

Author:Tom Hanks

“And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.”

Felt Reflection Hopeless Hopelessness

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. And in the almostness of the moment, I cared at least enough. I wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out. Her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. The enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile. Five layers between us.”

Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition

“I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.”

Remember Felt Forget Happened Reflection Vow

Author:Neil Gaiman

“My discovery of Tarkovsky's first film was like a miracle. Suddenly, I found myself standing at the door of a room the keys of which had, until then, never been given to me. It was a room I had always wanted to enter and where he was moving freely and fully at ease.”

Firsts Dream Wanted Film Moving Found Language Given Felt Rooms Knowing Doors Keys Reflection Discovery Standing Miracle Ease Capture

Author:Ingmar Bergman

“I had a born-again experience at the age of 33. As a result of that I found a church where I felt I was being fed properly. I don't say that as a reflection on Catholicism. But once I was born again, I got an evangelical spirit.”

Age Spirit Found Felt Born Church Results Reflection Catholic Feds Catholicism Evangelical Born Again

Author:Bill McCartney