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«The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.»
«Our home, incredible as it may sound, was lovely: a true Victorian damsel absolved of her sins and her glory restored.»
Author: Patricia A. Tretout
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«The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
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«There is strife between God's ways and human ways: damned by you, we are absolved by God»
«Nothing is so soothing to our self esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.»
Author: Van Wyck Brooks
(Biographer, Critic, Historian)
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«If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.»
«No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.»
Author: Erica Jong
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«I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of responsibility. We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry.»
Author: P. J. O'Rourke
(Humorist, Journalist, Writer)
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absolve, absolved, code, critter, critters, journalist, Journalists, motive, objectivity, Olympian, purity, roach, roaches, scurry, scurrying, step on, turn on
«In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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absolve, absolved, extreme unction, foolishness, gone by, unction
«I cannot absolve sins»
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