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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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There are two kinds of light – the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. – James Thurber

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All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why. – James Thurber

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The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress. – Oliver Goldsmith

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If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology. – D.H. Lawrence, St.Mawr

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Depressed people think they know themselves, but maybe they only know depression. – Mark Epstein

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A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality. – Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

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More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it. – Mahatma Gandhi

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I cannot consistently, with self respect, do other than I have, namely, to deliberately violate an act which seems to me to be a denial of everything which ideally and in practice I hold sacred. – Roger Nash Baldwin

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