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• Art is born of humiliation.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Born, Art Is

  In Stephen Spender World Within World (1951) ch. 2

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• We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Hate, Men

  "Making Sense of a Senseless World" by Emily Bennington, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

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• And here I thought they were called Peeping Toms." I didn't need to see him to know he wore a smile. "Stop laughing," I said, my cheeks hot with humiliation. "Get me down." "Jump." "What?" "I'll catch you." "Are you crazy? Go inside and open the window. Or get a ladder." "I don't need a ladder. Jump. I'm not going to drop you.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Crazy, Laughing, Hot

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• It's quite frightening; the business of trying to be funny is very hairy. In comedy, the potential for humiliation is huge. Trying to be funny and failing is about the most embarrassing thing you can do.

  Emily Mortimer

  Trying, Comedy, Failing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.

  Helen Fisher

  Girl, Eye, Names

  "Jealousy — The Monster". www.oprah.com.

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• Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

  Francine Pascal

  Way, Emotion, Terrible

  Francine Pascal (2012). “Fearless: Fearless; Sam; Run”, p.53, Simon and Schuster

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• To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

  Richard Linklater

  Passion, Self, Profound

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• Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

  William Goldman

  Flaws

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.247, A&C Black

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• The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.

  Gerry Adams

  Class, Forever, Citizens

  "Speech by Gerry Adams, then President of Sinn Féin, to a Sinn Féin selection convention in Navan, County Meath". CAIN in the University of Ulster, December 1, 2004.

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• We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

  Clive Barker

  Despair, Littles, Way

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Mar 13, 2014

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• Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses".

  Deb Caletti

  Love Life, Rose, Occasional

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.112, Simon and Schuster

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• Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Life, Ignorance, Suffering

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• Religion used to be the opium of the people. To those suffering humiliation, pain, illness, and serfdom, religion promised the reward of an after life. But now, we are witnessing a transformation, a true opium of the people is the belief in nothingness after death, the huge solace, the huge comfort of thinking that for our betrayals, our greed, our cowardice, our murders, we are not going to be judged.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Atheist, Pain, Betrayal

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• Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stress, Pride, Climbing

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• We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Growing Up, Learning

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.177, Macmillan

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• I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.

  Norman Lear

  Idols, People, Giving

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most all methods of capitol punishment are designed to inflict the maximum of humiliation - not attempts to prevent suicide.

  William S. Burroughs

  Suicide, Punishment, Method

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, Culture, Earth

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• He's having a vision," I said. "That's what happens." (Maya) "Attractive, I know," Corey said between gritted teeth. "And now I get new witnesses to my humiliation. Wonderful." "We're used to it," Chloe said. "Derek used to do that when he Changed. Only worse." "Thank you for sharing," Derek muttered. She grinned. "You're welcome.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Vision, Teeth, Chloe

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• Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God.’’ Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho

  Paulo Coelho

  Fighting, Warrior, Winning

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• Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

  Susan Cain

  Environment, Painful, Shyness

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

  W. H. Auden

  Sunny Afternoon, Shy, Sunny Day

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• What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.

  Kate Millett

  Mean, Bipolar, Doe

  "Imagine, Dignity with Mental Illness - Much Work to Do" by Kerry Ryan-Kuhn, June 12, 2013.

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• The largest fear in the world is to speak in public. We fear of stumbling, or public humiliation, and so we're fearing a face-to-face rejection. So, we'll say things in a text or e-mail that we would never say face-to-face. So, relationships are coming together faster and breaking apart faster, and they're a little bit more disposable.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Rejection, Together, Faces

  "No Strings Attached - Ashton Kutcher interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• What has ISIS done to the women in the cities they have conquered? Direct enslavement, humiliation and turning women into concubines to be bought and sold. This was something nobody expected to see in Iraq.

  Yanar Mohammed

  Isis, Cities, Iraq

  "Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war". Interview with Jennifer Allsopp, www.opendemocracy.net. April 26, 2015.

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