"The mind of guilt is full of scorpions."
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"The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness."
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"To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt."
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"The devil makes many disciples by preaching against sin. He convinces them that the great evil of sin, induces a crisis of guilt by which “God is satisfied," and after that he lets them spend the rest of their lives meditating on the intense sinfulness and evident reprobation of other men."
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"He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will."
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"Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers."
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"The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both."
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"Guilt starts as a feeling of failure."
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"Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt."
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"We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt."
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"Guilt is a very good thing if it is shared by others."
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"With no guilt and no shame, no sorrow or blame. Whatever it is, we are all the same."
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"My beloved church misunderstood me. It preached the corruptibility of humanity when I came to demonstrate its potential for incorruptibility. It propounded the sinfulness of humanity when I suffered to reveal your godliness and to overcome your guilt by demonstrating that you can totally rise above the death of the body."
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"Lawrence Gilliard Jr. is a fine actor and I've always felt some residual guilt that we killed him so early in The Wire. It was always planned that way; we didn't kill him because of anything he did, we don't kill off actors just to do it."
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"Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain."
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"It is the essence of the institutions of liberty that it be recognized that guilt is personal and cannot be attributed to the holding of opinions or to mere intent in the absence of overt acts."
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"Acts that proceed from your calm center are always more effective than acts that proceed from fear, guilt, or anger."
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"God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves."
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"The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more."
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"Guilt is a rope that wears thin."
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