Henry Miller
Novelist, Essayist
"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."
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Stifling
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Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Without work all life goes rotten."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal."
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"Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much."
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