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"Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her."
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"I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn't regret any of it."
"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."
"Personally of course I regret everything.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy,not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust,not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear,not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly.An ordure, from beginning to end."
"There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse."
"I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children."
"He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure."
"But year after year that summons, unheard but felt, was disobeyed. His one secret thought became like a chain binding down his spirit and like a serpent gnawing into his heart."
"Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time?"
"I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty."
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"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
"Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work."
"When will someone write from the point of view of a joke, that is to say theway God sees events from above?"
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