"The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces."
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"The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness."
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"Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one."
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"Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone."
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"The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all."
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"Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind."
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"I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame."
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"I don't have any shame."
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"Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy."
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"It’s just a shame that it had to be played that way."
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"There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones."
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"Nothing inhibits healing like shame."
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"I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen."
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"What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We."
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"O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!"
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"Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!"
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"My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!"
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"Let life be short, else shame will be too long."
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"Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will."
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"It is not human to be without shame and without desire."
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