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If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.
Author:
George Weinberg
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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
Author:
Daniel Webster
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
Author:
Earl Warren
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Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Author:
Peter Vries
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
Author:
Francois Truffaut
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Faith never makes a confession.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
Author:
Billy Sunday
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You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
Author:
Ryan Stiles
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Secrecy sets barriers between men, but at the same time offers the seductive temptation to break through the barriers by gossip or confession.
Author:
Georg Simmel
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Between lovers a little confession is a dangerous thing.
Author:
Helen Rowland
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Confession, alas, is the new handshake.
Author:
Richard Rosen
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But say some, would you expose woman to the contact of rough, rude, drinking, swearing, fighting men at the ballot box? What a humiliating confession lies in this plea for keeping woman in the background!
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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I have hardly detained the reader long enough on the subject, to give him a just impression of the stress laid on confession. It is one of the great points to which our attention was constantly directed.
Author:
Maria Monk
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There will be masses available all day long. Confession available all day long.
Author:
Thomas Monaghan
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I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!
Author:
Mercedes McCambridge
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Author:
Karl Marx
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I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
Author:
Gerard Hopkins
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Psychoanalysis is the confession without absolution.
Author:
Germaine Greer
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
Author:
Dorothy Dix
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The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
Author:
DeWitt Clinton
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A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
Author:
Albert Camus
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause.
Author:
William Brennan, Jr.
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My whole act is confession.
Author:
Shelley Berman
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I don't know, maybe it's because I was raised Catholic. Confession has always held a great appeal for me.
Author:
Alison Bechdel
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I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them?
Author:
Jean Baudrillard
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Acting is a form of confession.
Author:
Tallulah Bankhead
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
Author:
Saint Augustine
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Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Author:
Horatio Alger
