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You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...

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Mother's intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don't imagine that she troubled herself to fee...

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Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for...

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In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then th...

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Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more re...

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It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again witho...

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I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i ...

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Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with...

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It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while ...

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T. S. EliotPrufrock and Other Observations

Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And do you know what he has done ...

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His remorse was purely physical. Only his body, strained nerves, and cowering flesh were afraid of t...

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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behav...

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Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry...

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Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, ...

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Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actual...

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Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to...

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Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....

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With the first jolt he was in daylight; they had left the gateways of King’s Cross, and were under b...

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Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, w...

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Howard PyleThe Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the ri...

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