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I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasona

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unseasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night. – James Thurber

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All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first. – James Thurber

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Hate
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The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds. – James Thurber

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To be too conscious is an illness — a real thoroughgoing illness. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Handwriting is autobiography. – Carrie Latet

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Let the credulous and the vulgar continue to believe that all mental woes can be cured by a daily application of old Greek myths to their private parts. – Vladimir Nabokov, 1951

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When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself. – Plato

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The ultimate essence of yoga is the contact and the union between the individual consciousness and the divine consciousness. – Raphael, Essence and Purpose of Yoga: The Initiatory Pathways to the Transcenden

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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – G.K. Chesterton

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