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Confession
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“Confessions are like tattoos in that 1) You convince yourself that the immediate pain of going through the process means it won't bother you later on; 2) They are permanent.”
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“... confession ran in the family.”
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“... most wrong-doing works, on the whole, less mischief than its useless confession ... ”
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“Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.”
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“... Molly was in the mood when the need to talk — to let oneself go — is so great that the choice of a listener is little more than an accident.”
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“Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.”
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“... I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.”
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“The good confidante is, by the very nature of the thing, a bad confider.”
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“... every smart / Is eased in telling.”
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“True confession consists in telling our deed in such a way that our soul is changed in the telling of it.”
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“... confessions are always pretentious and very hard to listen to.”