"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."

Guilt, Memory, Emotion, Truth

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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."

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"The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it."

Veronica Roth, American Author

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"How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Lady Macbeth."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"At the same time I know that it's not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"There is no such thing as collective guilt."

Kurt Waldheim, Austrian Politician

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"What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy."

Dennis Miller, American Comedian

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

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"There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion."

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"There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity."

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"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."

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"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."

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"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."

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"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution."

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