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"There is no such thing as collective guilt."
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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

"Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace."

"All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and a wrong in the universe."

"Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke..."

"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."

"The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free."

"How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt."

"The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS."
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