"What have I to forgive and whom?"
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"Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?""
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"But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all."
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"Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another."
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"You say: 'Oh, please forgive' You say: 'Oh, live and let live.' But sorry doesn't help us. Sorry will not save us. Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway). Sorry doesn't help us. Sorry won't protect us. Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong."
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"Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place."
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"If you clear that negative feeling and forgive yourself, then you can see the world from a different lens. You stop attracting that same type of experience. You can set yourself free."
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"You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you."
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"You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that."
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"After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations."
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"I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it."
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"My ideal reader is me. And yes, my ideal reader comes with me and is forgiving."
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"The Story of Solomon is the only way I know how to explain. And then, in smaller letters: Forgive me."
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"Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind."
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"He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything."
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"We forgive but not forgotten"
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"I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others."
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"True, the name of the product wasn't so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the same time - worse than Edsel, or Probe, or Microsoft's Bob. But one forgives a bad name. One even comes to be fond of a bad name, if the product itself is delightful."
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"It would be very hard to write a serious drama and say some of these things. You can be much more abstract and allusive with horror, and it's very forgiving to the author. You don't necessarily have to take an absolutely positive position. You can just write whatever."
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"We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves."
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