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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful, because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. - Aldous Huxley


It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. - Rebecca West


To abandon oneself to principles is really to die, and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love. - Albert Camus


Having been admonished by this Holy Office [the Inquisition] entirely to abandon the false opinion that the Sun was the centre of the universe and immovable, and that the Earth was not the centre of the same and that it moved. I abjure with a sincere heart and unfeigned faith, I curse and detest the said errors and heresies, and generally all and every error and sect contrary to the Holy Catholic Church. - Galileo Galilei


Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song. - Pope John Paul II


Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief. - Edmund Burke


Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do. - Bhagavad Gita


Usually, the reason we don't abandon ourselves to one vice is because we have several. [Fr., Ce qui nous empêche souvent de nous abandonner à un seul vice est que nous en avons plusieurs] - Francois De La Rochefoucauld


The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. - Wystan Hugh Auden

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