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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#forgiveness #regret #forgiveness

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#detective #express #fiction #hercule #murder

Oh, you've outdone me twice now, you queen of forgiveness. The ring's a promise of peace and I'm greedy with hope. It's a song that we sing in a tongue that we share. And though you say it's a gift from a king to a king, I say it's a sign from a queen to a queen. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#hope #redemption #forgiveness

De pronto no puedo decirte lo que yo te debo decir, hombre,perdóname; sabrás que aunque no escuches mis palabras no me eché a llorar ni a dormir y que contigo estoy sin verte desde hace tiempo y hasta el fin. I can't just suddenly tell you what I should be telling you, friend, forgive me; you know that although you don't hear my words, I wasn't asleep or in tears, that I am with you without seeing you for a good long time and until the end. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

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Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art. ↗

— John Updike

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Please forgive me. My pedicurist had a stroke. She fell forward onto the orange stick and plunged it into my toe. It required bandaging. ↗

— Woody Allen

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I'd been preparing myself to apologize. Forgive and forget, as Mom says. "Fuck you," I said. ↗

— Tara Kelly

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Forgiveness is hard. Acceptance is doable. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

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Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other. ↗

— Beth Kephart

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