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"In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate."
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"It's a terrible thing, what we did, said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it."
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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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"Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up."
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"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."
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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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"This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it."
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"Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow."
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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."
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"I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt."
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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..."
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