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"It's good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan."You only say that because you have no shame."
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"I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that."
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"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."
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"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."
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"I can see your dirtypillows."
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"I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"
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"It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame."
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"She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it."
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"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."
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"Shame comes in different doses."
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"They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch."
Philosophy
"There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience."
Experience
"Sensual excess drives out pity in man."
Passion
"I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure."
Heart
"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates."
Nature
"She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring."
Being
"Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust."
Desire
"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
Principle
"My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!"
Care
"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one."
Nature
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