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Impulse
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“Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.”
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“If you don't have imagination you're lost. But it's a virtue that's becoming increasingly rare, especially in its higher form: spontaneity. Mad, happy spontaneity.”
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“He acted too often without counting the cost, from some dazzling conception, — one could not say from impulse, for impulses are from the heart. He liked to reorganize and change things for the sake of change, to make a fine gesture, He destroyed the old before he had clearly thought out the new.”
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“And she saw now that the strong impulses which had once wrecked her happiness were the forces that had enabled her to rebuild her life out of the ruins.”
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“We are rarely wrong when we act from impulse.”
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“My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.”
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“I love the abandonment to impulse, I act from impulse only, and I love to madness that others do the same by me.”
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“Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.”
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“I could never tell where inspiration begins and impulse leaves off. I suppose the answer is in the outcome. If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.”
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“The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.”
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“... impulses sometimes have logical roots and ought to be given in to.”
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“Strong impulses come of strong feelings; and strong feelings are the source of all that is great and good, not, alas! of all that is wise ...”