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"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."
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"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."

"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."

"The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides."

"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."

"It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA."

"Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself."
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