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• I change too quickly: my today refutes my yesterday. When I ascend I often jump over steps, and no step forgives me that.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Yesterday, Forgiving, Today

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• Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)

  Melissa Marr

  Sorry, Forgiving, Way

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• Forgive me-he mumbled against her lips. Please. Forgive me for what I'm going to do to you. ~Shade

  Larissa Ione

  Forgiving, Lips, Please

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• De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end.

  Pablo Neruda

  Names, Long, Forgiving

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• The reconciliation is not based on the fact that one of the characters opens his eyes and says, "O brother! O sister! How terrible I was! How right and wonderful you were! Please forgive me! Let's hug and love each other from now until the rest of eternity!" This is not the kind of reconciliation I write about; I write about sad, sober, sometimes heart-breaking compromises.

  Amos Oz

  Brother, Writing, Heart

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

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• In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

  Desmond Tutu

  Sorry, Humility, Order

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hate, Love You, Forgiving

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

  Kendrick Lamar

  Forgiving, Sin, Lord

  Song: Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe

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• Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.

  Alexander Payne

  War, People, Forgiving

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• To live
  On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces,
  Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all
  Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for;
  This is to be a trickster; and to filch
  Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth,
  Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend,
  You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me,
  Is what, when done with a less dainty grace,
  Plain folks call "Theft.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Mean, Men

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• My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them!

  Emily Dickinson

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Forgiving

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less.

  E. J. Dionne

  Believe, Hard Work, Giving

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• I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Past, People, Forgiving

  2000 On his retirement. In the Observer, 2 Jan.

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• This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Helping Others, Thinking

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.100, Anchor

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• Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.

  Countee Cullen

  Forgiving, Needs, Shapes

  1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

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• Street photography is art and if art is a crime, please God, forgive me.

  Thomas Leuthard

  Photography, Art, Forgiving

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• God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

  Heinrich Heine

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Opponents

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• What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil practice for the sake of their accurate faith, and sometimes to forgive their confessed heresy for the sake of their admirable practice.

  John Ruskin

  Reality, Men, Practice

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice”, p.109

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• ... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.

  Princess Diana

  People, Forgiving, Latter

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• Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Lying, Disrespect, Forgiving

  Song: Hold Ya Head, 2005

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• "And when you had made sure of the poor little fool," said my aunt - "God forgive me that I should call her so, and she gone where YOU won't go in a hurry - because you had not done wrong enough to her and hers, you must begin to train her, must you? begin to break her, like a poor caged bird, and wear her deluded life away, in teaching her to sing YOUR notes?"

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Teaching, Aunt

  Charles Dickens (2009). “David Copperfield”, p.395, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

  Saint Augustine

  Forgiveness, Thinking, Forgiving

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• I guess my main worry is that people will start hating what I hate about myself. I worry that everyone will think I am really annoying and just want me to shut up. Which would make so much sense because I annoy myself... I guess I want people to know that if they are annoyed with me, I get it, it's totally cool. Please forgive me.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Hate, Thinking, People

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• Oh, forgive me. Shaking hands with me is an unpleasant experience. My hands are no longer hands.

  Crane Wilbur

  Hands, Forgiving, Unpleasant Experiences

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