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"Mama says that satisfaction isn't what I should search for. Respect is. Respect?I detest that word. Probably because in this world you have to respect the wrong people for the wrong reasons."
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"Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk."
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Personal Development
"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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"I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centered, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal."
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"Prostitution' is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from."
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Personal Development
"The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive."
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"Sin is the delusion of our feelings, while crime is the delusion of our actions."
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"We do what we enjoy, even if it is act of evil."
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"There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
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Personal Development
"And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
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"When a man is getting better, he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him."
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"And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them."
Regret
"This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating."
Life
"Maybe memories should be left the way they are."
Life
"He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them."
Responsibility
"If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others."
Society
"It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely."
Psychology
"And we all end up where we started."
Reflection
"I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think."
Life
"And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breath for the rest of my life."
Life
"She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it's to tell her that something bad has happened."
Emotion
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