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It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
* Hannah Arendt
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
* Hannah Arendt
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The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
* Chaucer
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In the small circle of pain within the skull
You still shall tramp and tread one endless round
Of thought, to justify your action to yourselves,
Weaving a fiction which unravels as you weave,
Pacing forever in the hell of make-believe
Which never is belief: this is your fate on earth
And we must think no further of you.
* T. S. Eliot
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This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.
* Juvenal
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How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
* Publilius Syrus
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It is only too easy to compel a sensitive human being to feel guilty about anything.
* Morton Irving Seiden
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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
* John Steinbeck
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