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Self-sacrifice

(noun) The giving up of one's own benefit, especially giving up one's life, for the good of others. Example: "His brave self-sacrifice won him a posthumous medal, but I think he'd have preferred to receive it in person."

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"How far should a person go in the name of true love?"
— Nicholas Sparks
"I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it,I shudder no more.I could be martyred for my religion.Love is my religionand I could die for that.I could die for you.My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet."
— John Keats
"Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved."
— Stephenie Meyer
"Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."
— Karl Lagerfeld
"When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
— Ernest Hemingway

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