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Gym should be illegal. It's humiliating.
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humor
p-e
physical-education
gym
humiliation
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Laurie Halse Anderson |
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"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)"
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men
self-determination
women
empowerment
love
gentlemanlike
gentlemen
behaviour
refusal
scorn
declaration
marriage-proposal
humiliation
proposal
mr-darcy
propriety
rejection
pride
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Jane Austen |
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Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.
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humor
life
humiliation
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Paul Murray |
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Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles - and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.'' Manuscript Found In Accra - Paulo Coelho
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defeat
doubt
god
life
love
scar
humiliation
denial
helplessness
victory
honour
valiant
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Paulo Coelho |
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The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, were being ashamed of what they were, lying about it, trying to be somebody else. Honesty was Fats' currency, his weapon and defense. It frightened people when you were honest; it shocked them. Other people, Fats had discovered, were mired in embarrasment and pretense, terrified that their truths might leak out, but Fats was attracted by rawness, by everything that was ugly but honest, by the dirty things about which the likes of his father felt humiliated and disgusted. Fats thought a lot about messiahs and pariahs; about men labeled mad or criminal; noble misfits shunned by the sleepy masses.
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lying
humanity
honesty
humiliation
lie
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J.K. Rowling |
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Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.
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inspirational
humiliation
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Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S |
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Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.
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beauty
humiliation
falling
decadence
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
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inigo
william-goldman
the-princess-bride
humiliation
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William Goldman |
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The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
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love
fifteen
humiliation
manners
etiquette
dating
regret
boys
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Beverly Cleary |
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Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.
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woman
life
unnerved
emotional
paralyzing
potential
humiliation
training
discipline
scars
young
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R.A. Salvatore |
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Nero, you are an example to all the children on this shuttle. Because most of them are so foolish, they think it is better to keep their stupidest thoughts to themselves. You, however, understand the profound truth that you must reveal your stupidity openly. To hold your stupidity inside you is to embrace it, to cling to it, to protect it. But when you expose your stupidity, you give yourself the chance to have it caught, corrected, and replaced with wisdom. Be brave, all of you, like Nero Boulanger, and when you have a thought of such surpassing ignorance that you think it's actually smart, make sure to make some noise, to let your mental limitations squeak out some whimpering fart of a thought, so that you have a chance to learn.
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stupidity
humiliation
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Orson Scott Card |
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Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.
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feelings
heart
helpless
subdued
dostoyevsky
humiliation
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched her with growing pleasure. In front of him was kneeling the directress, being humiliated by a subordinate; in front of him a naked revolutionary was being humiliated by prayer; in front of him a praying lady was being humiliated by her nakedness. This threefold image of degradation intoxicated him and something unexpected suddenly happened: his body revoked its passive resistance. Edward was excited! As the directress said, 'And lead us not into temptation,' he quickly threw off all his clothes. When she said, 'Amen,' he violently lifted her off the floor and dragged her onto the couch.
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sex
degradation
humiliation
lust
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Milan Kundera |
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Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.
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hopes
nature
life
humiliation
perspective
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Alain de Botton |
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They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody who would give him all their things. Yes. He'd like that. He'd know her when he saw her. He'd know just what to say.
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hope
love
humiliation
rejection
unrequited-love
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George R.R. Martin |
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He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord.
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pain
humiliation
will
power
disappointment
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.
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humiliation
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Ben Aaronovitch |
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"Rosy lifted her arm, tried to say something, then pointed at the cafe, held her head, covered her mouth and--humiliation of humiliations--she began to cry. Right there in the street. "I'm so confused," she said but it came out as a great honking wail. "Come here, you silly girl," Phyllis said. The woman put her arms around Rosy, patted her back, and for the first time in forever, Rosy allowed herself to just cry. A young mother with twins in a pram passed them. The children's eyes tracked Rosy for a second before their faces crumpled and they started to cry too. "I'm sorry," Rosy said, and flapped her arms. "I'm sorry."
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emotion
overwhelmed
humiliation
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R.G. Manse |
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In that one stolen second, I considered the Glebe girl. She entered my mind like a burglar, them vanished again, taking nothing. It was like the humiliation of the past had been dragged instantly from my back and left somewhere on the ground.
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entered-my-mind
taking-nothing
vanished
humiliation
thought
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Markus Zusak |
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There were no public articulations of these humiliations, so we took refuge in accidental occasions to weave our resentments and hatreds into little stories that lost their impact as soon as they were told.
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humiliation
resentment
stories
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Azar Nafisi |
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"Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he's having right now. That's how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. We have to stand up to that, and say, at least to ourselves, that what he's done before is still with us, still right here in this room until there's true remorse. Nothing will be right until there's that." "He looks so, sort of, weakened." "Weakened is not enough. Destroyed isn't enough. He's got to repent and feel humiliation and regret. I won't be satisfied until he knows what he is." "Do we know what we are?" "We know we aren't him. We know that to that degree we don't yet deserve the lowest circle of hell."
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family
humiliation
repentance
remorse
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Jane Smiley |