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“even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal.” George Orwell, 1984
“The novel is not the author’s confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.” Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Few books are as fascinating as certain confessions: but they have to be sincere, and the author has to have something to confess.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“God must do everything for us. Our part is to yield and trust. We must confess, forsake, repudiate the self-life, and then reckon it crucified.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“My life—my whole life. Take it, and do with it what you will. . . . I love you—love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly! You did not know it then—you know it...” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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