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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.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Book, Honest, Certain

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• Do not be afraid of Confession! One who is in line to confess himself feels all these things - even shame - but then, when he finishes confessing, he leaves free, great, beautiful, forgiven, [...] happy. And this is the beauty of Confession... Jesus is there...and He receives you with so much love.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Jesus, Lines

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• I should say that psycho-analysis was confession without absolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Analysis, Psycho, Should

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• Confession is a kind of pride.

  Francis Balfour-Browne

  Pride, Kind

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• The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

  Milan Kundera

  Life, People, World

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• The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the acceptance of responsibility. And the awareness of responsibility inevitably leads either to despair or to confession and grace.

  Paul Tournier

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Miracle

  "Reflections: a personal guide for life's most crucial questions".

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• You go to someone and you think, 'I'll tell him this.' But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later--you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse---the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.

  Philip Roth

  Thinking, Exhibitionism, Awful

  Philip Roth (1997). “American Pastoral”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I need to capture my sprite with trembling hands. Except I could crush her. Wonder how many small things of beauty - flowers, seashells, dragonflies - have met such a demise. Wonder how much fragile love has collapsed beneath the weight of confession.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Crush, Flower, Hands

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Real, Writing, Memorial

  Maurice Blanchot, P. Adams Sitney (1981). “The gaze of Orpheus, and other literary essays”, Barrytown, N.Y. ; Station Hill Press

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• It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

  Oscar Wilde

  Gone, Worship, Compliment

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1079, Delphi Classics

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• A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Wish, Finals, Diaries

  Lawrence Durrell (2012). “The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea”, p.194, Faber & Faber

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• Confession frees, but power reduces one to silence; truth does not belong to the order of power, but shares an origincal affinity with freedom: traditional themes in philosophy, which a political history of truth would have to overturn by showing that truth is not by nature free--nor error servile--but that its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. The confession is an example of this.

  Michel Foucault

  Philosophy, Errors, Order

  Michel Foucault (1990). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, Vintage

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• Confession may well be a dirty word in poetry.

  Lucie Brock-Broido

  Dirty

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Abiding, Doe

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• The word fate... is the refuge of every self-confessed failure.

  Andrew Soutar

  Fate, Self, Refuge

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• It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

  Monica Furlong

  Done, Chance, Good Things

  Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”

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• So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

  Marlon Riggs

  Self, Has Beens, Concealment

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• To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Ignorance, Giving, Honest

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• The most famous person in my phone is Lindsay Lohan. We starred in 'Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen' together in 2004 and we've stayed in touch.

  Adam Garcia

  Queens, Teenage, Drama

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• In the doctrine of Providence, we have a specific Christian confession exclusively possible through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is no general, vague notion of Providence. It has a concrete focus: ‘If God is for us, who is against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?’ (Rom.8:31, 32).

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Christian, Jesus, Son

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• There are many ways to cover up our sin. We may justify or minimize it by blaming circumstances and others people. However, real repentance first admits sin as sin and takes full responsibility. True confession and repentance begins when blame shifting ends...Just as real repentance begins only where blame shifting ends, so it also begins where self-pity ends, and we start to turn from our sin out of love for God rather than mere self-interest.

  Timothy Keller

  Real, Responsibility, Self

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• I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Writing, People, Belief

  Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.294, Scholastic Inc.

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• Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, World, Opinion

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• Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Thinking, Needs, Faults

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• Every Christian is chosen-chosen for similar deeds, namely: to be with the Lord, through unceasing remembrance of Him and awareness of His omnipresence, through the preaching and fulfillment of His commandments, and through a readiness to confess one's faith in Him. In those circles where such a confession is made, it is a loud sermon for all to hear.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Christian, Humility, Circles

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