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The face forgives the mirror, the worm forgives the plough, the question begs the answer, can you forgive me somehow?

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Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk.

If there's one thing you can say about mankind, there's nothing kind about man.

And the things you can’t remember tell the things you can forget, that history puts a saint in every dream.

It's kind of like borrowing the same ten bucks from somebody over and over again.

Pregnant women and Vietnam vets, beggin on the freeway, bout as hard as it gets.

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It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

Muhammad

Wilt Thou indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city; wilt Thou indeed sweep away and not forgive the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Abraham

It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing.

Al-Tirmidhi

I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness.

Simone Weil Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986)

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