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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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"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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"You can cry, ain't no shame in it."
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"Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years."
Time
"Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent."
Truth
"History is mostly guessing; the rest is prejudice."
History
"Education is the transmission of civilization."
Education
"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
Acting
"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."
Civilization
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
History
"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."
Virtue
"When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near."
Philosophy
"As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy."
Politics
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