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Quote by Diane Ackerman
There is no way in which to understand the world without first det

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses. – Diane Ackerman

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I do not want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. – Diane Ackerman

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A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. – Diane Ackerman

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Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. – Helen Keller

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The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense. – Source Unknown

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Reason is the cause of our falsification of the evidence of the senses. In so far as the senses show becoming, passing away, change, they do not lie. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Our ideas are the offspring of our senses; we are not more able to create the form of a being we have not seen, without retrospect to one we know, than we are able to create a new sense. He whose fancy has conceived an idea of the most beautiful form must have composed it from actual existence. – Henry Fuseli

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