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Quotes About Intensity

Tonight I will suck the marrow from your bones!" it said. "I will dry them and work them most cunningly into instruments of music! Whenever I play upon them, your spirit will writhe in bodiless agony!" "You burn prettily," I said.
~ Roger Zelazny
The Photograph is violent: not because it shows violent tings, but because on each occasion (i)it fills the sight by force(i), and because in it nothing can be refused or transformed (that we can sometimes call it mild does not contradict its violence: many say that sugar is mild, but to me sugar is violent, and I call it so).
~ Roland Barthes
Je t'aime est sans nuances. Il supprime les explications, les aménagements, les degrés, les scrupules.
~ Roland Barthes
Is love then, that madness I *want*?
~ Roland Barthes
27 de octubre Todo el mundo conjetura —así lo siento— el grado de intensidad de un duelo. Pero imposible (signos irrisorios, contradictorios) medir hasta qué punto alguien ha sido alcanzado.
~ Roland Barthes
The four to six young aides usually slept in one room, often two to a bed, then worked long days in a single room with chairs crowded around small wooden tables. Washington typically kept a small office off to the side. During busy periods, the aides sometimes wrote and copied one hundred letters per day, an exhausting grind
~ Ron Chernow
This feud, rife with intrigue and lacerating polemics, was to take on an almost pathological intensity.
~ Ron Chernow
I was almost overwhelmed.
~ Ron Chernow
The smart money brings a gun to a knife fight. Reacher brought a hydrogen bomb.
~ Lee Child
a yard and left, Dave," he said. O'Donnell was like a blind man. His eyes were tight on the two guys
~ Lee Child
I want you to swallow your tongue. I want you to just gulp it down, real sudden, like it was an oyster.
~ Lee Child
We tore each other's clothes off like they were on fire. She was gorgeous. Firm and strong and a shape like a dream. Skin like silk. She pulled me to the floor through bars of hot sunlight from the window. It was frantic. We were rolling and nothing could have stopped us. It was like the end of the world. We shuddered to a stop and lay gasping. We were bathed in sweat. Totally spent.
~ Lee Child
smaller, wirier, boiled down to
~ Lee Child
He said, "Come back," a little louder. She straightened up. He got the impression she was about to puke. He didn't want that. Not all over his good clothes. But he licked her ear one more time
~ Lee Child
Then Chang fired. Full auto. Nine hundred rounds a minute. Impossibly fast. A brief blur of sound, like a manic sewing machine. Two seconds. A whole mag. Dirt stitched up in a line and a splinter of wood blew off the building.
~ Lee Child
Eco ardiente (Echo Burning)
~ Lee Child
All I know is that I'm in love with you, he said, almost angrily. That the sight of you, the scent of you, the sound of your voice - I can't help myself, I can't stop it, I can't think of anything else. You've made me completely useless.
~ Lee Nichols
The drink was a storm cloud with coffee thundering around inside it.
~ Leif Enger
He had an advanced capacity for hatred. It came to him easily and fully formed.
~ Leif Enger
almost painful, and even the scrawled
~ Leigh Michaels
The Nazis could not have won the support of the German masses but for the systematic preaching of a complex array of theories, doctrines, opinions, notions, beliefs. And not one of their central beliefs was original. They found those beliefs, widespread and waiting, in the culture; they seized upon them and broadcast them at top volume, thrusting them with a new intensity back into the streets of Germany.
~ Leonard Peikoff
over me, I experienced the same thrill and amazement as when I had my first glimpse of the bright lights of Konakry. I shivered with the intensity of my desire to learn to do this wondrous thing myself.6
~ Leonard Shlain
Je tiefer das Gefühl, desto größer der Schmerz.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch