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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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"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."
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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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"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
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"A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored."
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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."
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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."
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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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"There is no such thing as collective guilt."
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"I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie."
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"What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave."
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
Man
"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
Trust
"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
Progress
"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
Illusion
"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
Man
"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
Dream
"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
Mistake
"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
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"If youth knew; if age could."
Age
"The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
Character
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