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But there was a difference between being stuck and choosing to stay. Between being found and finding yourself.Martina Boone
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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.Martina Boone
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.John Milton
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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 justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.Joan Didion
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Writer: It's not an occupation it's a compulsion.Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.Plato
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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.Martina Boone
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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.JeanJacques Rousseau
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It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.Stephen R. Donaldson
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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 choose in many spheres. On the other hand, many of its most intelligent members have not believed that people are free at all, and have devoted great efforts to show that really we are the product of our genes, our unconscious drives, our education, economic pressures, or other forms of conditioning.David F. Ford
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Compulsion is the death of friendship, joy.Patrick OBrian
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Reading is not optional.Walter Dean Myers
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Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.Alain Badiou
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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 consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be. Or wonder who, after all, you are.Unknown
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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 never voluntarily opened.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.Avakruth
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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 throwing themselves into them - trees that have had to be cut down because of people hanging themselves upon them - the contagion of suicide and theft and murder, which at various times has taken possession of people's minds, by means well understood; that strange inducement, which makes people kill themselves because others kill themselves. My hair rose upon my head with horror! (" The Invisible Eye") .ErckmannChatrian
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You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.Travis Luedke
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The Synonyms of Job is Compulsion! !M. Azeem Pasha
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Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?"" Not particularly. You have that effect on people.Martina Boone
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [Italian: Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]Dante Alighieri