“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“The scars remain and the wounds are still deep.”
Scottish Government's relationship with Europe (July 11, 2007)
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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
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Les défauts de l'âme sont comme les blessures du corps: quelque soin qu'on prenne de les guérir, la cicatrice paraît toujours, et elles sont à tout moment en danger de se rouvrir.
Variant translation: The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.
Maxim 194.
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Context: Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.