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Compulsion
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The thought of her gave me such a continual anguish that I could no more forget her than an aching tooth. It was involuntary, hopeless, compulsive. For years she had been the first thing I remembered when I woke up, the last thing that drifted through my mind as I went to sleep, and during the day she came to me obtrusively, obsessively, always with a painful shock.
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― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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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.
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― The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
― The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
