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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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evil
good-intentions
hurt
looking-back
self-centered
wound
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Haruki Murakami |
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Time heals all wounds.
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time
wound
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Stephen King |
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What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside.
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healing
soul
wound
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Leo Tolstoy |
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Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.
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love
people
protect
sad-truth
shots
wound
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Jodi Picoult |
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It's only a scratch, don't cut my arm off!
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carrie-vaughn
diana
jill
pirates
steel
swashbuckling
teen
wound
ya
young-adult
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Carrie Vaughn |
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I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.
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doctors
fail
hospital
medicine
practice
wound
wounded
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Ernest Hemingway |
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The death of Nighteyes gutted me. I walked wounded through my life in the days that followed, unaware of just how mutilated I was. I was like the man who complains of the itching of his severed leg. The itching distracts from the immense knowledge that one will forever after hobble through life.
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death
denial
effect
forever
itch
knowledge
life
mutilated
pain
result
unimaginable
wound
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Robin Hobb |
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"A wound gives strange dignity to him who bears it. Well men shy from his new and terrible majesty. It is as if the wounded man's hand is upon the curtain which hangs before the revelations of all existence - the meaning of ants, potentates, wars, cities, sunshine, snow, a feather dropped from a bird's wing; and the power of it sheds radiance upon a bloody form, and makes the other men understand sometimes that they are little. His comrades look at him with large eyes thoughtfully. Moreover, they fear vaguely that the weight of a finger upon him might send him headlong, precipitate the tragedy, hurl him at once into the dim, gray unknown. ("An Episode Of War")"
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wound
wounded
woundedness
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Stephen Crane |
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Had he healed one wound only to open another?
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wound
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Mary Balogh |
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Oh, the pain of it, thought Lee, thinking about his children, oh! the exquisite pain of unrequited love. The only authentic wound, the sweet curse they inflict on you, the revenge of heterosexuality.
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heterosexuality
revenge
wound
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Angela Carter |
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Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.
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broken-hearted
confess
delusion
denial
happy
heal
healing
honesty
hope
life
love
pathetic
recover
rigourous-honesty
scars
self-hate
tragic
treatment
wound
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Dennis Lehane |
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Night is brushed aside like so much cobweb. The day is wound up and begins even before the last haunted dreams, the last of the fog, those spectral and evanescent residues, have faded away.
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day
evanescent
fade
fog
night
simile
spectral
wound
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