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“But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.”
“Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.”
“I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.”
“It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.”
“The modern West has been deeply split about freedom and responsibility. On the one hand, it has championed human freedom in many forms - human rights, sexual freedom, political liberty, freedom to ...”
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
“Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.”
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justi...”
“Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion. ”
“Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.”
“When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its co...”
“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
“We've lost a lot of years, but you can't lose love. Not real love. It stays locked inside you, ready for whenever you are strong enough to find it again.”
“Reading is not optional.”
“That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we ne...”
“If the if isn't an if, what if is an if that if has to be replaced by an if that if shall never if that the place of if.”
“You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.”
“I reeled with giddiness - flames passed before my eyes.I remembered those precipices that drew one towards them with irresistible power - wells that have had to be filled up because of persons thro...”
“The Synonyms of Job is Compulsion!!”
“Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?""Not particularly. You have that effect on people.”
