"My paintings are so legible, I feel guilty."
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"What right can give anyone authority to inflict torture upon a citizen when it is still unknown whether he is innocent or guilty?"
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"In the end, we would like not to be guilty while at the same time being dispensed of the effort of purifying ourselves. Not enough cynicism and not enough virtue."
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"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."
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"I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it."
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"Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself."
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"Glory grows guilty of detested crimes."
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"Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty."
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"It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions, but I was guilty of the greater sin; I knew what was right, and I chose to reject it."
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"He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces."
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"It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy."
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"As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me."
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"I'm an equal opportunity reader - although I don't much read plays. And since I was raised a Presbyterian, pretty much all pleasures are guilty."
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"This is the part of a great man, after he has maturely weighed all circumstances, to punish the guilty, to spare the many, and in every state of fortune not to depart from an upright, virtuous conduct."
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"I think your program has to reflect what your basic feelings are. Ill plead guilty to that."
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"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases."
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"Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure."
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"Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself."
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"I now stop feeling guilty. I let myself out of that prison."
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"Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty."
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