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d0b20a8 I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked. selfless Sylvia Plath
2c4b453 Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American. freedom patriotism politics sacifice selfish selfless war-on-terror Bill Maher
0cd9899 "An hour ago, I never would have thought that someone like him could be my savior, but he is. What type of person would I be if I left my savior behind. "I'm not leaving you behind." rachel saviour selfless Katie McGarry
7d9be3a I just want to serve and help people and be good to everybody, only it always goes wrong somehow--I think about suicide all the time, every bloody day I want to die and stop this torture, but I go crawling on . . . I'm so Christ-awful bloody lonely I could scream with it for hours on end. desperate iris-murdoch loneliness rejected selfless suicidal the-black-prince unlucky Iris Murdoch
073aec2 How fearful that dark shadow is when we catch sight of it in the life of another. No wonder those at whom that black arrow is aimed so often turn and flee. How unendurable it can be, the love another bears us. I would never persecute my darling with that dread knowledge. From now onward until the world ended everything must remain, although utterly changed, exactly as it was before. iris-murdoch love selfless the-black-prince unrequited-love unspoken Iris Murdoch