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"I ain't never done nothin' that wasn't part sin."
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"I know you don't want this, Katsa. But I can't help myself. The moment you came barreling into my life I was lost. I'm afraid to tell you what I wish for, for fear you'll... oh, I don't know, throw me into the fire. Or more likely, refuse me. Or worst of all, despise me," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes dropping from her face. His face dropping into his hands. "I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone could be. And I've made you cry; and there I'll stop."

"If it's me who loves you, you'll know, as I will tell it you in my own words."

"My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit."

"Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart."

"Tonight was... well, it was perfect for me too. You've turned my world upside down. I've fallen in love with you, chica, and it scares the fuckin' shit outta me. I've been shakin' all night, because I knew it.I've tried to deny it, to make you think I wanted you as a fake girlfriend, but that was a lie."

"The one whose 'alochana (confession of mistakes), pratikraman (asking for forgiveness) and pratyakhyan (avowal to never repeat the mistake)' are true (done correctly), he is bound to attain the knowledge of the Self (attain self realization)."

"If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant."

"Father, I do acknowledge and confess That I this honor, I this pomp have brought
To Dagon, and advanc'd his praises high among the Heathen round; to God have brought
Dishonor, obloquy, and op'd the mouths
Of Idolists, and Atheists.
The anguish of my Soul, that suffers not
Mine eye to harbor sleep, or thoughts to rest.
This only hope relieves me, that the strife
With me hath end."

"If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest."

"There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment."
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"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."

"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"

"Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that."

"You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect."

"And don't worry about losing. If i is right, it happens - the main thing is not to hurry.Nothing good gets away."

"Why do men like me want sons?" he wondered. "It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone."
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