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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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"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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"Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One."
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"There is no such thing as collective guilt."
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"A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored."
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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."
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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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"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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"Pretty?' I said, swivelling in the driver's seat to face him, 'you want to ask me out because I'm pretty?' 'Is there a problem with asking you out because you're pretty?' 'I think you blew it,' said Tiger with a grin. 'You should be asking her out because she's smart, witty, mature beyond her years and every moment in her company makes you want to be a better person - pretty of face should be at the bottom of the list.' 'Oh, blast,' said Perkins despondently. 'It should, shouldn't it?"
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"True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is..."
Morality

"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."
Leadership

"A surfeit of information often hides an untruth, he said, with annoying clarity."
Deception

"I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics."
Commitment

"I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action."
Curiosity

"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."
Reality

"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."
Mortality

"I was in '78 recently," he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?"
Nostalgia

"Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out."
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