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• I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you the capacity to endure and respond to the pain it forces you to feel. Psychological pain, I mean.

  Christian Wiman

  Art, Pain, Believe

  Interview with Caitlin Mackenzie, therumpus.net. October 7, 2014.

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• For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Adventure, Past, Band

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you will come home with no wounds whatsoever.

  Uesugi Kenshin

  Home, Warrior, Victory

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• If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.

  William Ralph Inge

  Running, Names, World

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• Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

  Claire Cook

  Grief, Sadness, Loss

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• I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding on the canvas. I, like most people, have suffered traumatic events. The character of a person's life is determined by the way they deal with those events. I am a creative person and I deal with it creatively.

  Eric Fischl

  Character, Thinking, Opening Up

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• You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. And I learned a long time ago, you cannot achieve success, if you fear failure. If you're not afraid to fail, man, you have a chance to succeed. But you're never gonna get there unless you risk it, all the way. I'll risk failure. Sometimes, half the fun is failing. Learning from your mistakes, waking up the next morning, and saying 'Okay. Watch out. Here I come again. A little bit smarter, licking my wounds, and really not looking forward to getting my ass kicked the way I just did yesterday.' So now, I'm just a little more dangerous.

  Paul Heyman

  Morning, Fun, Mistake

  "The Rise & Fall of ECW". Documentary, Sport, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

  Mario Balotelli

  Children, Never Forget, Abandonment

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• Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that is not what happens. What happens is we lie around in bed eating chocolate and screwing. Art is what happens when things don't work out, when you're licking your wounds. Art is, to a larger extent than people would like to think, a productive licking of the wounds.

  Steve Almond

  Art, Lying, Writing

  Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.38, Algonquin Books

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• Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.

  Edmond Jabes

  Blood, Humiliated, I Can

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• We are Heavenly Father’s children. He wants to be a part of our lives, to bless us, and to help us. He will heal our wounds, dry our tears, and help us along our path to return to His presence. As we look to Him, He will lead us.

  Carl B. Cook

  Children, Father, Tears

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• Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all.

  Lauren Slater

  Thinking, Skins, Reach Out

  Lauren Slater (2012). “Welcome to My Country”, p.179, Anchor

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• My wound existed before me;
  I was born to embody it.

  Joë Bousquet

  Born

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• In the wounds our sufferings plough immortal love sows sovereign seed.

  Gerald Massey

  Suffering, Sovereign, Immortal

  Gerald Massey (1857). “The Poetical Works of Gerald Massey: Complete in One Volume”, p.16

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• At the end. First start off and do your youth thing In Hollywood and then go to New York later. But it wound up being later, later than I thought it was going to be.

  Delta Burke

  New York, Hollywood, Firsts

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• Let it be known that this is the true Church, in which there is confession and penance and which takes a health-promoting care of the sins and wounds to which the weak flesh is subject.

  Lactantius

  Church, Penance, Care

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• A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.

  Frank Loesser

  Writing, Night, Keys

  Frank Loesser (2003). “The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood.

  Mary Renault

  Men, Blood, Together

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• The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester

  Anne Perry

  Lying, Cleaners

  Anne Perry (2006). “Dark Assassin: A William Monk Novel”, p.236, Ballantine Books

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• It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Healing, Important

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• We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

  William Shakespeare

  Modesty, Foul, Clearness

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1805). “As you like it. All's well that ends well”, p.179

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• The diabolical work that has taken place since the legalization of abortion is that it has destroyed, in those tragic women who have allowed their child to be murdered, their sense for the sacredness of maternity. Abortion not only murders the innocent; it spiritually murders women... the wound created in their souls is so great that only God's grace can heal it. The very soul of a woman is meant to be maternal.

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Children, Taken, Abortion

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• That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Courage, Disappointment, Past

  Joe Abercrombie (2015). “The Great Leveller: Best Served Cold, The Heroes and Red Country”, p.1336, Hachette UK

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• Here learn the science of the Saints: All is to be found in the passion of Jesus. Make every effort to remain hidden in the wounds of Jesus, and you will be enriched with every good and every true light, enabling you to fly to that Perfection which is consonant with your way of life.

  Paul of the Cross

  Jesus, Passion, Light

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• We should never use the truth to wound.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Advice, Use

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