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title: "129 Protect Myself Quotes by 119 authors"
description: "Browse 129 Protect Myself quotes by 119 authors. Discover the best Protect Myself sayings and thoughts."
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> [I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-more/i-would-uphold-the-law-if-for-no-other-reason-but-to-protect-myself/)

[Thomas More](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-more/)

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> [“I protect myself by refusing to know myself.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/floriano-martins/i-protect-myself-by-refusing-to-know-myself/)

[Floriano Martins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/floriano-martins/)

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> [I wanted to protect him, which I was sure I could do, even if I could not protect myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-wanted-to-protect-him-which-i-was-sure-i-could-do-even-if-i-could/)

[Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/)

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> [“I need to protect myself from myself. And my clone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jarod-kintz/i-need-to-protect-myself-from-myself-and-my-clone/)

[Jarod Kintz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jarod-kintz/)

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> [I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alberto-giacometti/i-paint-and-sculpt-to-get-a-grip-on-reality-to-protect-myself/)

[Alberto Giacometti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alberto-giacometti/)

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> [To protect myself from the rear, I have to stand slantwise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lu-xun/to-protect-myself-from-the-rear-i-have-to-stand-slantwise/)

[Lu Xun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lu-xun/)

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> [I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/orson-welles/i-feel-i-have-to-protect-myself-against-things-so-i-m-pretty-careful/)

[Orson Welles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/orson-welles/)

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> [“I was so fired up to protect myself from you playin’ games with my heart, I played yours.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kristen-ashley/i-was-so-fired-up-to-protect-myself-from-you-playin-games-with-my/)

[Kristen Ashley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kristen-ashley/)

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> [I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-dourdan/i-have-to-protect-myself-because-people-think-that-because-you-come/)

Gary Dourdan

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> [“I would still rather feel things and live life to the fullest rather than hide in a cave and attempt to protect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-berrien/i-would-still-rather-feel-things-and-live-life-to-the-fullest-rather/)

[Elizabeth Berrien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-berrien/)

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> [I'm just going to do what I can do, not worry about taking hits. I'm not going to shy away from that...…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deshaun-watson/i-m-just-going-to-do-what-i-can-do-not-worry-about-taking-hits-i-m/)

[Deshaun Watson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deshaun-watson/)

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> [By buying off the bottom in the real estate markets, I'm doing the best I can to protect myself from any future…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/porter-stansberry/by-buying-off-the-bottom-in-the-real-estate-markets-i-m-doing-the/)

[Porter Stansberry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/porter-stansberry/)

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> [“When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ntideva/when-fear-and-suffering-are-disliked-by-me-and-others-equally-what-is/)

[Śāntideva](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ntideva/)

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> [I'm not going to put myself into a bubble and try to protect myself because there are things that are a little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jim-miller/i-m-not-going-to-put-myself-into-a-bubble-and-try-to-protect-myself/)

[Jim Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jim-miller/)

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> [“I see you, and I suddenly forget why I was keeping score. That’s why I stayed away, I guess. It was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrea-lochen/i-see-you-and-i-suddenly-forget-why-i-was-keeping-score-that-s-why-i/)

[Andrea Lochen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrea-lochen/)

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> [Maybe by nature and because of my past I protect myself. The minute I feel any tension I take myself away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/georgia-toffolo/maybe-by-nature-and-because-of-my-past-i-protect-myself-the-minute-i/)

[Georgia Toffolo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/georgia-toffolo/)

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> [I don't have to do emails, I don't have to protect myself about anything, I don't have any chain of command. My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-mccallum/i-don-t-have-to-do-emails-i-don-t-have-to-protect-myself-about/)

[Rick McCallum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-mccallum/)

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> [I want to remember my daughter's birthday when she's 18. I don't want to forget it. I don't want to forget her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/curtis-blaydes/i-want-to-remember-my-daughter-s-birthday-when-she-s-18-i-don-t-want/)

[Curtis Blaydes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/curtis-blaydes/)

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> [I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dani-shapiro/i-was-in-my-early-thirties-writing-about-my-early-twenties-so-there/)

[Dani Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dani-shapiro/)

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> [“It took me years to get over you. Truth is, I never did fully get over you. I just learned to live…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-hanna/it-took-me-years-to-get-over-you-truth-is-i-never-did-fully-get-over/)

Rachel Hanna

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> [“That was my first instinct -- to protect him. It never occurred to me that there was a greater need to protect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-greene/that-was-my-first-instinct-to-protect-him-it-never-occurred-to-me/)

[Graham Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-greene/)

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> [I work on a TV show I love, I have the opportunity to do movies with actors I respect, and I'm in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-larter/i-work-on-a-tv-show-i-love-i-have-the-opportunity-to-do-movies-with/)

[Ali Larter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-larter/)

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> [“Like it or not, I'm here now, in the year 1Q84. The 1984 that I knew no longer exists. It's 1Q84 now.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/like-it-or-not-i-m-here-now-in-the-year-1q84-the-1984-that-i-knew-no/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniela-vega/i-faced-a-certain-amount-of-violence-it-taught-me-that-i-had-to-learn/)

[Daniela Vega](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniela-vega/)

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> [“is no benefit in denying the sufferings of future lives; when they actually descend upon me it will be too late to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kelsang-gyatso/is-no-benefit-in-denying-the-sufferings-of-future-lives-when-they/)

[Kelsang Gyatso](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kelsang-gyatso/)

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> [The key to succeeding in a relationship is not finding the right person, it's learning to love the person you found. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ritu-ghatourey/the-key-to-succeeding-in-a-relationship-is-not-finding-the-right/)

[Ritu Ghatourey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ritu-ghatourey/)

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> [I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-have-tried-to-protect-myself-against-men-to-react-against-their/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-d-salinger-2/there-is-a-marvelous-peace-in-not-publishing-it-s-peaceful-still-2/)

[J. D. Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-d-salinger-2/)

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> [“I can't help who I am," I pointed out. "i mean, do you think I should just hide?" I tapped one finger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cate-tiernan/i-can-t-help-who-i-am-i-pointed-out-i-mean-do-you-think-i-should-just/)

[Cate Tiernan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cate-tiernan/)

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> [“I've failed in communication...and so I've learned to have open and honest dialogue at the opportune, and appropriate time. I've failed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/katrena-patterson/i-ve-failed-in-communication-and-so-i-ve-learned-to-have-open-and/)

Katrena Patterson

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> [“I am a Black woman, therefore, I am destined to protect myself. Our men have wandered too far to beckon. They are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bethanee-epifani-j-bryant/i-am-a-black-woman-therefore-i-am-destined-to-protect-myself-our-men/)

[Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bethanee-epifani-j-bryant/)

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> [What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julie-anne-peters/what-was-i-afraid-of-exactly-what-other-people-would-think-i-guess-a/)

[Julie Anne Peters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julie-anne-peters/)

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> [“Chillax, I’m not going to hurt myself. I’m made of pretty sturdy stuff.”  He looked at her, and his gray eyes went…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chanda-hahn/chillax-i-m-not-going-to-hurt-myself-i-m-made-of-pretty-sturdy-stuff/)

[Chanda Hahn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chanda-hahn/)

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> [“She let out a rough laugh, close enough that it warmed his face. “Just sleep in the bed,” she said. “I don’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-j-maas/she-let-out-a-rough-laugh-close-enough-that-it-warmed-his-face-just/)

[Sarah J. Maas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-j-maas/)

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> [“THE TASTE OF HER Coming into her with all of my love, my lips run over her silk skin like water drifting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/luccini-shurod/the-taste-of-her-coming-into-her-with-all-of-my-love-my-lips-run-over/)

[Luccini Shurod](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/luccini-shurod/)

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> [“That was the day I realized that he could not cope and I could not cope and, emotionally, he could take me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-rauch/that-was-the-day-i-realized-that-he-could-not-cope-and-i-could-not/)

[Jonathan Rauch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-rauch/)

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> [“While there is still time, I hasten to protect myself, and so I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoevsky/while-there-is-still-time-i-hasten-to-protect-myself-and-so-i/)

[Fyodor Dostoevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoevsky/)

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> [“ethnic groups, but to say that we don’t divide each other into races would be to ignore thousands of years of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-h-dalton/ethnic-groups-but-to-say-that-we-don-t-divide-each-other-into-races/)

[C.H. Dalton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-h-dalton/)

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> [“One of my earliest memories is from around age three or four—sitting in a dress by myself playing with a doll. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/one-of-my-earliest-memories-is-from-around-age-three-or-four-sitting/)

[Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/)

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> [“My Dearest, Can you forgive me? In a world that I seldom understand, there are winds of destiny that blow when we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-sparks/my-dearest-can-you-forgive-me-in-a-world-that-i-seldom-understand/)

[Nicholas Sparks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-sparks/)

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                        "text": "“is no benefit in denying the sufferings of future lives; when they actually descend upon me it will be too late to protect myself from them. Therefore I definitely need to prepare protection now, while I have this human life that gives me the opportunity to liberate myself permanently from the sufferings of my countless future lives. If I do not apply effort to accomplish this, but allow my human life to become empty of meaning, there is no greater deception and no greater foolishness. I must put effort now into liberating myself permanently from the sufferings of my countless future lives.”",
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                        "text": "There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. ... I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. ... I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.",
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                        "text": "“I am a Black woman, therefore, I am destined to protect myself. Our men have wandered too far to beckon. They are lost guardians. Thus, you learn early on how to wield your sword & hoist your shield -- how to stand shoulder to shoulder with your sister in battle and wail a cry that never seems to be loud enough. And I am tired. If only I could rest. To be a Queen with no infantry is a painful sight indeed. They do not yield to my crown. How useless is my throne, if I am to continue to fight alone?”",
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                        "text": "What was I afraid of, exactly? What other people would think? I guess, a little. But that wasn't what was stopping me from acting on my feelings. It was the intensity of them. The desire for her. I knew if I gave into it, I'd have to surrender myself completely. I'd lose all control. Everything I knew, everything I was, the walls I'd built up to protect myself all these years would come crashing down. I might get lost in the rubble. Yet, she made me feel alive in a way I'd only ever imagined I could feel. Bells, whistles, music.",
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                        "text": "“Chillax, I’m not going to hurt myself. I’m made of pretty sturdy stuff.”  He looked at her, and his gray eyes went soft when he spoke. “Yeah, like your heart, it’s made of stone,” Mina responded tartly.. Jared actually looked a little hurt at the barb. “Maybe, but that’s because no one has ever taken the time to break through the stone and see that I do actually have one.” “Well, maybe it’s because you are a jerk!” she snapped. “Well, maybe I only pretend to be a jerk to keep from getting too close to people!” His tone slowly began to rise in pitch and volume. “Then you must be lonely ’cause you seem to have yourself closed off from the world and protected just fine!” She spun and pointed her finger, poking him hard in the chest. “No! I don’t have to protect myself from others. Only from you!”",
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                        "text": "“She let out a rough laugh, close enough that it warmed his face. “Just sleep in the bed,” she said. “I don’t feel like digging up bedding for the couch.” Maybe it was the laugh, or the silver lining her eyes, but he said, “Fine.” Fool—he was such a stupid fool when it came to her. He made himself add, “But it sends a message, Aelin.” She lifted her brows in a way that usually meant fire was going to start flickering—but none came. Both of them were trapped in their bodies, stranded without magic. He’d adapt; he’d endure. “Oh?” she purred, and he braced himself for the tempest. “And what message does it send? That I’m a whore? As if what I do in the privacy of my own room, with my body, is anyone’s concern.” “You think I don’t agree?” His temper slipped its leash. No one else had ever been able to get under his skin so fast, so deep, in the span of a few words. “But things are different now, Aelin. You’re a queen of the realm. We have to consider how it looks, what impact it might have on our relationships with people who find it to be improper. Explaining that it’s for your safety—” “Oh, please. My safety? You think Lorcan or the king or whoever the hell else has it in for me is going to slither through the window in the middle of the night? I can protect myself, you know.” “Gods above, I know you can.” He’d never been in doubt of that. Her nostrils flared. “This is one of the stupidest fights we’ve ever had. All thanks to your idiocy, I might add.” She stalked toward her closet, her hips swishing as if to accentuate every word as she snapped, “Just get in bed.” He loosed a tight breath as she and those hips vanished into the closet. Boundaries. Lines. Off-limits. Those were his new favorite words, he reminded himself as he grimaced at the silken sheets, even as the huff of her breath still touched his cheek.”",
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                        "text": "“While there is still time, I hasten to protect myself, and so I renounce the higher harmony altogether. It's not worth the tears of that one tortured child who beat itself on the breast with its little fist and prayed in its stinking outhouse, with its unexpiated tears to 'dear, kind God'! It's not worth it, because those tears are unatoned for. They must be atoned for, or there can be no harmony... I don't want harmony. From love for humanity I don't want it. I would rather be left with the unavenged suffering. I would rather remain with my unavenged suffering and unsatisfied indignation, even if I were wrong. Besides, too high a price is asked for harmony; it's beyond our means to pay so much to enter on it. And so I hasten to give back my entrance ticket, and if I am an honest man I am bound to give it back as soon as possible. And that I am doing. It's not God that I don't accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.”",
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                        "text": "“ethnic groups, but to say that we don’t divide each other into races would be to ignore thousands of years of human history. Not to mention the fact that white people drive a car like this: Fig. 3 While black people drive a car like this: Fig. 4 Despite increasing globalization and intermarriage, or “miscegenation,” there are still distinct and important differences between members of the different races. Since the subtlety and scope of those differences are far too complicated to be helpful to us in everyday life, we employ certain heuristics, or “stereotypes,” to better understand and more comfortably interact with those different from ourselves. Like the Maori. Such stereotypes are sometimes controversial, because they can oversimplify the differences between individuals. Every person is different, and it is rare for someone to fit a stereotype perfectly. Except for so-called “walking stereotypes,” like Carson from Queer Eye.2. Others don’t have any of the characteristics ascribed to their race in such stereotypes. It’s an imperfect science at best. For example, just because the Maori are, in general, lazy, selfish, and long-winded, that does not mean that noted Maori opera singer Kiri Te Kanawa is any of those things. In fact, she is only two of them, because she is a soprano, and sopranos tend to be very succinct. Even so, stereotypes can be very useful in our everyday social interactions and decision-making. They are actually a kind of survival instinct—a crude form of received inductive reasoning that can help us make snap judgments in situations where we don’t have all the facts. When entering into a business deal with someone of Roma descent, for instance, I am very careful of my possessions. Knowing the stereotype that gypsies are tramps and thieves,3. I am able to better protect myself when coming into contact with them,”",
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                        "text": "“One of my earliest memories is from around age three or four—sitting in a dress by myself playing with a doll. I was fine playing, but the sense was that there was no connection. There was nobody around; I was completely isolated. This was safe, but there wasn’t a sense of happiness, only that I had figured out how to protect myself.” “By being alone.” “By being alone and yes … without feeling contact. “There are other fragments that come up. For a long time I’ve had this image of lying in what felt like clouds; I was on a bed of clouds with a grey and colourless sky above me and this one ray of sun hitting me, but it was cold. The sense of really being completely alone, that even this ray, which might be love, wasn’t. I saw that learning not to feel was what I had to do in order to survive.” Such experiences — or the conclusions Harriette drew from them—left her isolated in life, or in relationships that, she felt, depleted her more than they nurtured her. Her intensive therapy was aimed at developing emotional competence. Emotional competence is the capacity that enables us to stand in a responsible, non-victimized, and non-self-harming relationship with our environment.* It is the required internal ground for facing life’s inevitable stresses, for avoiding the creation of unnecessary ones and for furthering the healing process. Few of us reach adult age with anything close to full emotional competence. Recognizing our lack of it is not cause for self-judgment, only a call for further development and transformation.”",
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                        "text": "“My Dearest, Can you forgive me? In a world that I seldom understand, there are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one’s cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. You, my darling, are the wind that I did not anticipate, the wind that has gusted more strongly than I ever imagined possible. You are my destiny. I was wrong, so wrong, to ignore what was obvious, and I beg your forgiveness. Like a cautious traveler, I tried to protect myself from the wind and lost my soul instead. I was a fool to ignore my destiny, but even fools have feelings, and I’ve come to realize that you are the most important thing that I have in this world. I know I am not perfect. I’ve made more mistakes in the past few months than some make in a lifetime. I was wrong to deny what was obvious in my heart: that I can’t go on without you. You were right about everything. I tried to deny the things you were saying, even though I knew they were true. Like one who gazes only backward on a trip across the country, I ignored what lay ahead. I missed the beauty of a coming sunrise, the wonder of anticipation that makes life worthwhile. It was wrong of me to do that, a product of my confusion, and I wish I had come to understand that sooner. Now, though, with my gaze fixed toward the future, I see your face and hear your voice, certain that this is the path I must follow. It is my deepest wish that you give me one more chance. For the first few days after you left, I wanted to believe that I could go on as I always had. But I couldn’t. I knew in my heart that my life would never be the same again. I wanted you back, more than I imagined possible, yet whenever I conjured you up, I kept hearing your words in our last conversation. No matter how much I loved you, I knew it wasn’t going to be possible unless we—both of us—were sure I would devote myself fully to the path that lay ahead. I continued to be troubled by these thoughts until late last night when the answer finally came to me. Oh, I am sorry, so very sorry, that I ever hurt you. Maybe I’m too late now. I don’t know. I love you and always will. I am tired of being alone. I see children crying and laughing as they play in the sand, and I realize I want to have children with you. I am sick and sad without you. As I sit here in the kitchen, I am praying that you will let me come back to you, this time forever.”",
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