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Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. — Blaise Pascal
Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves… — John Thorn
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary. — Mark Twain
I have always thought it rather interesting to follow the involuntary movements of fear in clever people. Fools coarsely display their cowardice in all its… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins. — Iris Murdoch
Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary. — Paul Bowles
Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. — Charles Dickens
Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking… — Wystan Hugh Auden
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were… — Alan Watts
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a… — Jack Kerouac
Next time I’ll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron) Oh, I know.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am lithe, but fragile from constant involuntary self-analysis. — Mary MacLane
What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the… — George Orwell
Tunstell, this is your Alpha speaking. Do as I tell you. You must regurgitate now. Regurgitation is an involuntary action. You cannot simply order me… — Gail Carriger
You had this young man with you for... what, six years?" Halt shrugged. "Near enough," he replied. "And did you ever understand a word he… — John Flanagan
It was suicide, wasn't it?" "In an involuntary sort of way," said Vorob'yev. "These Cetagandan political suicides can get awfully messy, when the principal won't… — Lois McMaster Bujold
What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trism - was Liir's sense of him. A catalog of impressions that arose from time… — Gregory Maguire
For me chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex. — Jim Butcher
And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate… — Fernando Pessoa
We fall in love or stay in love with people who are unsuitable or who no longer love us and, conversely, we feel no love… — FranÃ§ois Lelord
It’s lovely,” I said, taking an involuntary half step back. “Really, though. I don’t like to handle other people’s cookware.” “That’s the best you can… — Mira Grant
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be… — Ayn Rand
I like to think of it less as embezzling and more as an involuntary goodwill contribution. — Jim Butcher
The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big… — Herman Melville
An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys. — Iain Sinclair

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