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• To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

  Carl Jung

  Learning, Personality, Shock

  Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Foote (1976). “The visions seminars: from the complete notes of Mary Foote”

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• Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Awful, Sides

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.251, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

  Anthony Weiner

  Mistake, Media, Religion

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• I meet people who are in movies, and the stuff that they write is terrible, but nobody tells them that because they're famous. So I worry that my stuff might be like that, too.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Writing, Worry, People

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• Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Women, Loneliness

  Christina Stead (1966). “Dark Places of the Heart”

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• "The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

  Eva Hart

  People, History, Silence

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• When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

  John F. Kerry

  Moving, Duplicity, Kyoto

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• I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

  Halle Berry

  Racism, Black, Faces

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• Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrongs. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Fall, Drinking

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• All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Fashion, Purple, White

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• His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while insanity rushed like spring flood through the upper layer of his soul, roaring and crashing, leaving terrible destruction in its wake, a deserted, ravaged country. No, he hadn't been crazy, but something inside him had been crazy.

  Christer Kihlman

  Depression, Country, Crazy

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• I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

  William Kittredge

  Fear, Thinking, Too Much

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• I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Brother, Pain, Believe

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Wayne: You wanna know why I really came to find you? Waxilliam: Why? Wayne: I thought of you happy in a comfy bed, resting and relaxing, spending the rest of your life sipping tea and reading papers while people bring you food and maids rub your toes and stuff. Waxilliam: And? Wayne: And I just couldn't leave you to a fate like that...I'm too good a friend to let a mate of mine die in such a terrible situation. Waxilliam: Comfortable? Wayne: No. Boring.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Reading, Fate, People

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• You have many flaws, he announced... “But there was one flaw that made all the other imperfections pale in comparison.” “Was?” she asked. “I don't have this flaw any longer?” “No, you don't.” “Pray tell,” she muttered in exasperation, “what was this terrible flaw?” He grinned. “You used to be English.

  Julie Garwood

  Imperfection, Praying, Flaws

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• Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

  Tom Stoppard

  World, Eternity, Worst

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Editors, Desire

  E. B. White (1989). “The Letters of E. B. White”, Perennial

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• When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

  Yann Martel

  Selfish, Empathy, Survival

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

  John Gardner

  Childhood, Feel Good, Age

  John Gardner (2010). “Grendel”, p.9, Vintage

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• Some people had too much power and too much cruelty to live. Some people were too horrible, no matter if you loved them; no matter that you had to make yourself terrible too, in order to stop them. Some things just had to be done. I forgive myself, thought Fire. Today, I forgive myself.

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Order, People

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• There are guerrilla armies that make little boys kill their own families. Such acts rip out the soul and make space for beasts to grow inside. Armies need beasts, don’t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work!

  Laini Taylor

  Rip, Army, Boys

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Simplicity, Ignorant, Fool

  Jonathan Stroud (2003). “Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)”, Disney-Hyperion

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• It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

  Warren Farrell

  Growing Up, America, Hearing

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt.

  Mark Twain

  Blood, Swim, Comfort

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiography of Mark Twain: Volume 1, Reader’s Edition”, p.414, Univ of California Press

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• The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty continent with endless absorptive capacity. We have a cash-wage economy that is having terrible problems finding jobs for its own people. The concern about immigration is not nativism but common sense.

  Richard Lamm

  Jobs, People, Common Sense

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