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Discover a curated selection of lines from Confess, celebrating the novel's blend of art, secrecy, and second chances. These quotes highlight moments of vulnerability, the pull of unexpected connection, and the courage it takes to tell the truth. Whether you're revisiting favorite passages or looking for words that capture complicated emotions, this collection offers thoughtful snapshots of love, loss, and hope. Approach them at your own pace and let the themes resonate in whatever way speaks to your experience.
Small: I must confess, I was born at a very early age
Groucho Marx
"I must confess, I was born at a very early age"
Groucho Marx, Comedian
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Small: Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven confess them to man and you will be laughed at
Josh Billings
"Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at"
Josh Billings, Comedian
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Small: It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury
Friedrich Durrenmatt
"It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury"
Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author
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Small: I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good
Thomas Hooker
"I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good"
Thomas Hooker, Leader
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Small: Confess and be hanged
Christopher Marlowe
"Confess and be hanged"
Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist
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Small: I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years
"I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years"
Wilbur Wright, Inventor
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Small: If Im gonna go down Im gonna do it with style. You wont hear me surrender, you wont hear me confess cause youv
"If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less"
Ani DiFranco, Musician
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Small: There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to con
Earl Warren
"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, Judge
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Small: The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart
"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart"
St. Jerome, Saint
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Small: It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality
"It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality"
Max Beerbohm, Actor
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Small: Torture numbers, and theyll confess to anything
"Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything"
Gregg Easterbrook, Author
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Small: Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an ap
"Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity"
Jean Henri Fabre, Author
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Small: In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a w
Winston Churchill
"In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
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Small: I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know
Cicero
"I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know"
Cicero, Philosopher
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Small: I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humi
Mahatma Gandhi
"I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps"
Mahatma Gandhi, Leader
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Small: A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession
Albert Camus
"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
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Small: We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
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Small: I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its cre
H.G. Wells
"I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea"
H.G. Wells, Author
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Small: The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimen
"The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar"
William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist
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Small: I confess, I do not believe in time
"I confess, I do not believe in time"
Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist
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Small: The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my readi
Mick Jagger
"The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table"
Mick Jagger, Musician
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Small: It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleas
"It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature"
Lord Melbourne, Statesman
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Small: As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God
Jesus Christ
"As surely as I am the living God, everyone will kneel before me, and everyone will confess that I am God"
Jesus Christ, Prophet
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Small: I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections
"I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections"
William Congreve, Poet
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Small: Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and kn
"Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves"
William Graham Sumner, Businessman
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Small: I confess Ive never felt like a passenger
"I confess I've never felt like a passenger"
Roger Waters, Musician
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Small: Im not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess
"I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess"
Gavin Rossdale, Musician
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Small: I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered acti
"I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement"
Rene Cassin, Judge
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Small: I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me
"I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me"
Zane Grey, Author
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Small: I feel as if Im clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking
Jonathan Franzen
"I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer"
Jonathan Franzen, Novelist
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Small: I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of
"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist"
Richard Cobden, Businessman
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Small: I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid
"I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America"
Jim Capaldi, Musician
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Small: I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess
"I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess"
Fanny Burney, Novelist
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Small: Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to b
"Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself"
Fanny Brice, Comedian
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Small: There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said
"There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said"
Joni Mitchell, Musician
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Small: Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of h
"Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"
Frank Moore Colby, Educator
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Small: For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out
"For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive"
Fanny Burney, Novelist
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Small: Its a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after Ive been the
Ben Shahn
"It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal"
Ben Shahn, Artist
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Small: I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, wh
Ben Shahn
"I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time"
Ben Shahn, Artist
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Small: I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though
"I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though"
Gary Cole, Actor
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