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I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe -- Emily Dickinson
Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. -- Alexander Pope
The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility. -- Emily Greene Balch
We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again. -- Everett Dirksen
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion. -- Thomas Jefferson
Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay. -- Abraham Lincoln
Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable. -- Ambrose Bierce
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. -- Abraham Lincoln
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity. -- Georges Bataille
Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation -- Abraham Lincoln
[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time. -- Robert Penn Warren
People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little. -- Kurt Vonnegut
One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences. -- Elizabeth Bowen

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