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“You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

“I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despicable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidian...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Forgiving men is so much easier than forgiving women.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“What is it that I’ll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn’t yours to bestow. Only a listener, perhaps; only someone who will see me.” Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

“The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.” Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays

“people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.” Oscar Wilde, Intentions

“But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty.” Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.” William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.” George Eliot, Middlemarch

“As you from crimes would pardon'd be, let your indulgence set me free.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive, as we had during the war.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“If we can forgive what’s been done to us... If we can forgive what we’ve done to others... If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.” Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

“What’s the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“We all like to forgive, and we all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

“Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best, so she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.” L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“To understand is to forgive.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age

“Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

“I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.” Albert Camus, The Fall

“I couldn't forgive him or like him but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?” Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

“Anything may be betrayed, anyone may be forgiven. But not those who lack the courage of their own greatness.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“But I am bound to state, as you were remarking, Jane, that he is excellent company, and he has one of the best cooks in London, and after a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.” Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance

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