"I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted."

Guilt, Acceptance, Evil, Self-Reflection

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"I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted."

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"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."

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"Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don't make a u-turn."

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"Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!"

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"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt."

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"It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

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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."

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"I love the way she feels inthe curve of my arm. I loveher unpretentious beauty,her intelligence, her nerve.But could I ever love her?The concept of falling in loveis completely foreign, somethingI can't bring myself to accept. Her hair pillows my cheek and her hand on my leg is warm. I care about you, Conner, and I hate to see you hurting. I want to respond but can'tfind the pretty words I need."

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"Aloneeverything changes.Some might call it distorted realitybut it's exactly the place I need to be."

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"Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen."

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"What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?"

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"I felt so fine I didn't once overanalyze the perfect emotion, budding inside. The one I'd always feared most."

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