William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Do not spread the compost on the weeds."
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Confession
103 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Shelley Berman
Comedian, Actor
"My whole act is confession."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"The act of love is a confession."
Jorie Graham
Poet
"A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession."
Anne Sexton
Poet, Author
"Our eyes are full of terrible confessions."
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"No confession brings perfection."
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"In the end, like the Almighty Himself, we make everything in our image, for want of a more reliable model; our artifacts tell more about ourselves than our confessions."
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"All art is a kind of confession."
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"A confession has to be part of your new life."
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"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."
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"God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions."
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"So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection."
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"A work of art is a confession."
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"There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
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"Women can have all the evidence but they still want the confession."
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"Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence."
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"Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess."
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"Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end."
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"Faith never makes a confession."
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"The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them."
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"I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution."
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"Psychaiatrist realize that there are curative powers in confession."
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"The poem is a confession of faith."
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"Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa."
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"The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno ."
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