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I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things from that experience, but when I look back on it, all I gained was one single, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who can do evil. I never consciously tried to hurt anyone, yet good intentions notwithstanding, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even cruel. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible excuse, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal.
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good-intentions
self-centered
looking-back
wound
hurt
evil
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Haruki Murakami |
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fbe2723
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We're so wrapped up with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks--we're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going. So we don't get into the habit of standing back and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?
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wrapped-up
truth
mundane-life
looking-back
realization
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Mitch Albom |
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b9fae5c
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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.
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punishments
undo-past-mistakes
undone
unkindness
looking-back
remorse
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Enid Blyton |
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04cdc85
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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your final destination.
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past
life
symbols
looking-back
path
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Jodi Picoult |
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36e813b
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The thing is that it could never again feel natural to talk to her
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moving-on
old-friends
reminisce
looking-back
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John Green |
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c372ea1
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What if I turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from.
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learning
past
looking-back
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Wallace Stegner |
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96c859b
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The answers hardly seemed of consequence. Not much did. I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.
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life
looking-back
meaningless
passive
the-sense-of-an-ending
regret
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Julian Barnes |