"Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what……" — Desmond Tutu

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• It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy. — Louise Doughty
• I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor.… — Susan Hayward
• All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to… — Patrick Warburton
• I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of… — Lynda Barry
• A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast,… — Augustus William Hare
• After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you… — Elizabeth McCracken
• Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another? — Peter De Vries
• In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than… — Desmond Tutu
• Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of… — Marisha Pessl
• This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why… — Emma Forrest
• I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the… — Sarah Waters

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