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• She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Ungrateful

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.230

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• " ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Hypocrite

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.75

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• Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Workout, Pain, Heart

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• There's another girl who was going to play Hilary Faye and luckily she wound up not doing it.

  Heather Matarazzo

  Girl, Play, Faye

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• All your wounds from craving love
  Exist because of heroic deeds.

  Hafez

  Heroic Deeds, Craving, Deeds

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• People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

  Phil McGraw

  Years, People, One Day

  "Dr. Phil: Oprah Is 'The Gold Standard In TV'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. May 23, 2011.

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• We [people] are made separate by the things we do or do not do. Responsibilities of all types curb us. Desire betrays us. No wound is ever truly petty. And there are so many ways to be locked apart from the rest of the world.

  Jill Alexander Essbaum

  Responsibility, People, Desire

  Source: therumpus.net

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• How many films are there about friendships between teenagers? And how many projects are there dealing with friendships among adults? True friendships - really dealing with the intimacy behind what happened then, and how long you've known each other, and the wounds that haven't healed. That's what [About Alex] film is about.

  Nate Parker

  True Friend, Teenager, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Work, Pride, Mind

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
  Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
  Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
  The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Jesus, Flower, Passion

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
  the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
  much poison.

  Ovid

  Love, Pain, Poison

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand;
  Better that they were not touched at all.

  Ovid

  Hands, Restraint, Grows

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• First try all other means, but if the wound
  Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
  From the diseased the canker spread.

  Ovid

  Mean, Knives, Trying

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• Spare the soul that feels a deadly wound.

  Ovid

  Soul, Injury, Feels

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• There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently--without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.

  Marcel Proust

  Attitude, Night, Tolerance

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• It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Giving, Feelings

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• Salvation, O the joyful sound!
  'Tis pleasure to our ears;
  A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound,
  A cordial for our fears.

  Isaac Watts

  Sound, Ears, Reign

  Isaac Watts (1813). “The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in Nine Volumes”, p.180

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• I am the wound and the knife!
  I am the slap and the cheek!
  I am the limbs and the rack,
  And the victim and the executioner!
  I am the vampire of my own heart.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Knives, Self

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• I ascend from darkness
  And depart on the winds of space for I know not where;
  My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket,
  And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.

  Conrad Aiken

  Morning, Keys, Wind

  Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.23, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.

  Joseph Joubert

  Sex, Women, Wind

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• The mention of one apartment in a building naturally introduces an enquiry or discourse concerning the others: and if we think ofa wound, we can scarcely forbear reflecting on the pain which follows it.

  David Hume

  Pain, Thinking, Reflection

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1992). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.14, Hackett Publishing

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• The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.

  Fernand Braudel

  Skins, World, Earth

  Fernand Braudel (1990). “The Identity of France: History and environment”, Harpercollins

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• Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

  Karl Kraus

  Pain, Anesthesia, Without Pain

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.42, University of Illinois Press

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• Bind up their wounds - but look the other way.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Looks, Way

  W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.615, Oxford University Press

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• My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.

  Jung Chang

  Crush, Mother, Years

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