"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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"... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession."
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"Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir."
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"All philosophy is a form of confession."
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"I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself."
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"Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention."
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