#sensitiveness

We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

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Sensitive people usually love deeply and hate deeply. We don't know any other way to live than by extremes because our emotional theromastat is broken. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

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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. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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I am quite likely to re-act to the opposite extreme - to feel rapturously that the world is beautiful and mere existence something to thank God for. I suppose our 'blues' are the price we have to pay for our temperament. 'The gods don't allow us to be in their debt.' They give us sensitiveness to beauty in all its forms but the shadow of the gift goes with it. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

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Indeed this gentleman's stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive in respect of any that happen to befall himself. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority. ↗

— Alfred Adler

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