For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Sensibility is about the ability to be moved by your emotions. You can feel things deeply, but you don’t need to act on them. You can let your emotions guide you, without letting them control you.

Source: Notes From Underground, White Nights, The Dream Of A Ridiculous Man, And Selections From The House Of The Dead

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