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Isabelle Holland

"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."

Isabelle Holland, Swiss Writer
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"Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness."

Audre Lorde, American Poet
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"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer
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"That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can't confront it."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist
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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint
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"Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman
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"How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt."

Robert Blair, American Poet
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"The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free."

David Sedaris, American Writer
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"When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist
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"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..."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist
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