#confession

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#autobiographical #confession #diary #even #film

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. ↗

— Peter De Vries

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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. ↗

— Earl Warren

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There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#refuge #suicide

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality. ↗

— George Weinberg

#act #box #confession #engage #every

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. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ↗

— Horatio Alger

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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#lie #myth #neither #nor

My whole act is confession. ↗