vertigo

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Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.

Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.

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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. Salman Rushdie

The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people had begun to recognize there was something special and it gained in reputation. But it just as well could have ended up rotting in film cans somewhere. Kim Novak

I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas. Laura Hillenbrand

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo. Milan Kundera

He doesn't know which is worse, a past he can't regain or a present that will destroy him if he looks at it too clearly. Then there's the future. Sheer vertigo. Margaret Atwood

It began as research. I wrote of silences, of nights, I scribbled the indescribable. I tied down the vertigo. Arthur Rimbaud

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