“She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness…”
Source: The Fountainhead
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Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905–1982Related quotes
“If you confess your sins, you must confess them to God; we are but his witnesses.”
Ann Lee (1736–1784) English Shaker leader
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
Ann Lee (1736–1784) English Shaker leader
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
“My pain is constant and sharp… this confession has meant nothing”
Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho
Source: American Psycho
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: Epigrams, p. 346
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
“she was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Variant: She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
Ted Hughes (1930–1998) English poet and children's writer
The Paris Review interview
Context: Why do human beings need to confess? Maybe if you don’t have that secret confession, you don’t have a poem — don’t even have a story. Don’t have a writer. If most poetry doesn’t seem to be in any sense confessional, it’s because the strategy of concealment, of obliquity, can be so compulsive that it’s almost entirely successful.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"Guayaquil", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)