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And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy al...

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Maybe from as early as when you're five or six, there's been a whisper going at the back of your hea...

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I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words o...

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Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

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These are the few ways we can practice humility:To speak as little as possible of one's self.To mind...

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Mother TeresaThe Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

It is the lies he's telling her - as he has been, Nassun understands suddenly, her whole life - that...

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The populace think that your rejection of popular standards is a rejection of all standard, and mere...

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The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem...

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Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have...

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For when a woman resists an unwelcome passion, she is obeying to the full the law of her sex; the in...

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It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

I'm fresh out of fucks to give.

Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way,but what I reject is more numerous,denser, mo...

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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of li...

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Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

Suicide creates his own society: to shut yourself off from other people in some dingy, rented box an...

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Al AlvarezThe Savage God: A Study of Suicide

Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throa...

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From my boyhood I have had an intense and overwhelming conviction that my real vocation lay in the d...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Stories

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs o...

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Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of ...

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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate th...

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This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don't co...

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He made it very clear that he didn’t want me here,” she said at last. “That my remaining at the Inst...

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It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enabl...

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I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outca...

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They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one...

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I'm now a bit anti-Jewish since my last visit to the synagogue, but my atheism does not necessarily ...

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You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...

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I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

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Jeanette WintersonWeight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles

Doesn't matter how pretty you are. What's important is how pretty you feel. No one feels pretty when...

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