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0761f54
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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
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self-sacrifice
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Charles Dickens |
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0539fdf
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How far should a person go in the name of true love?
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true-love
love
self-sacrifice
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Nicholas Sparks |
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6081225
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"I love you," he whispered, and that was the moment he knew what he was going to do. When you loved someone, you put their needs before your own. No matter how inconceivable those needs were; no matter how fucked up; no matter how much it made you feel like you were ripping yourself into pieces."
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self-sacrifice
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Jodi Picoult |
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4d17e1a
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You could run from someone you feared, you could try to fight someone you hated. All my reactions were geared toward those kinds of killers - the monsters, the enemies. When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give your beloved, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?
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motherhood
breaking-dawn
self-sacrifice
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Stephenie Meyer |
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00222a4
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When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
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self-sacrifice
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Ernest Hemingway |
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09fa53f
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Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.
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love
self-sacrifice
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Stephenie Meyer |
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2522acc
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Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.
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self-sacrifice
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Honoré de Balzac |
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9244533
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Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.
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wrong
self-sacrifice
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Jodi Picoult |
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5857556
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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
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suffering
women
love
self-sacrifice
purity
girls
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Honoré de Balzac |
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8f82b5f
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"Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's."
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self-sacrifice
parenting
father
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Rick Riordan |
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ed0abdc
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"The goddess smiled. "You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn. When Dionysus was made a god, I gave up my throne for him. It was the only way to avoid a civil war among the gods." "It unbalanced the Council," I remembered. "Suddenly there were seven guys and five girls." Hestia shrugged. "It was the best solution, not a perfect one. Now I tend the fire. I fade slowly into the background. No one will ever write epic poems about the deeds of Hestia. Most demigods don't even stop to talk to me. But that is no matter. I keep the peace. I yield when necessary. Can you do this?"
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give-up
hestia
self-sacrifice
yield
percy-jackson
peace
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Rick Riordan |
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89abfe2
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On my license, it says I'm an organ donor, but the truth is I'd consider being an organ martyr. I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive - the sum of the parts equal more than the whole. I wonder who might wind up walking around with my liver, my lungs, even my eyeballs. I wonder what poor asshole would get stuck with whatever it is in me that passes for a heart.
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self-sacrifice
self-pity
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Jodi Picoult |
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e9dbcc6
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We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.
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darman-skirata
etain-tur-mukan
republic-commando
karen-traviss
clone-wars
self-sacrifice
star-wars
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Karen Traviss |
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f7e189e
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... self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn't matter; it may be worthwhile or it may be worthless. No wine is so intoxicating, no love so shattering, no vice so compelling. When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? At best he can only sacrifice his only begotten son.
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self-sacrifice
passions
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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087b7fd
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Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
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self-sacrifice
giving
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Fulton J. Sheen |
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28b3db2
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To die trying is the proudest humans thing.
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mortality
self-sacrifice
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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94b772a
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At certain moments, the foot slips ; at others, the ground gives way. How many times had that conscience, furious for the right, grasped and overwhelmed him! How many times had truth, inexorable, planted her knee upon his breast! How many times, thrown to the ground by the light, had he cried to it for mercy!
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righteousness
truth
self-sacrifice
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Victor Hugo |
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c9f0f1c
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"- in the end she felt pity for me, for the lost man. And when a girl's heart is moved to pity, that is, of course, most dangerous for her. She's sure to want to "save" him then, to bring him to reason, to resurrect him, to call him to nobler aims, to regenerate him into a new life and new activity. Well, everyone knows what can be dreamt up in that vein. I saw at once that the bird was flying into my net on its own."
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self-sacrifice
pity
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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e0c1ee6
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"He had grown so accustomed to feeling tired that he took a certain pleasure in it, the pleasure of someone who has given up, the pleasure of someone who, when the moment of truth arrives, turns back the clock and says: "It's too early." The pleasure of self-sacrifice. But sacrifice is only complete when it is kept hidden from view; making it visible is tantamount to saying, "Look at me, look how self-sacrificing I am," and making sure that the other people don't forget it. Therefore he had not yet given up entirely, and behind his resignation hope still lingered, just as the blue sky is always there behind the clouds."
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self-sacrifice
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José Saramago |
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0a687ed
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Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.
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mercenaries
self-sacrifice
patriotism
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Barbara W. Tuchman |