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• There's genuine pain in Eric's eyes. And I feel a stab of guilt. But you can't stay with people because of guilt.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Pain, Eye, People

  Sophie Kinsella (2009). “Remember Me?”, p.425, Random House

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• One thing was absolutely certain—it was a given for Kazuo. Although he might not have particularlyrealized it, or more appropriately, perhaps because he was incapable of coming to such a realization, this was what it came down to: he, Kazuo Kiriyama, felt no emotion, no guilt, no sorrow, no pity, towards the four corpses, including Mitsuru's—and that ever since the day he was dropped into this world theway he was, he had never once felt a single emotion.

  Koushun Takami

  Sorrow, Realization, World

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• Your actions are your own. Your choices are your own. Each of us carries a burden of guilt for decisions made or not made. You can let that rule your whole life or you can put it behind you and move on. Only a madman lets jealousy determine the course of his existence. Only a weak man blames others for his own errors.

  Juliet Marillier

  Moving, Men, Weak Man

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• His guilt is why Acheron went out of his way to make sure that all of you had servants and pay for your work. The Dark-Hunters owe that man everything, and I do mean everything. He pays in blood every time one of you wants to go free, and he suffers every day so that you can all live your cushy little lives of wealth and privilege.” … “And I have to say that every time one of your turns on him, it seriously pisses me off. Acheron asks nothing from any of you and that’s exactly what he receives.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Dark, Men

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• I realize how depraved it was to instill false guilt in an innocent child's conscience, causing a distorted image of life, God, & self, leaving little if any feeling of personal worth.

  Mary Griffith

  Children, Self, Leaving

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• But now that she was my apprentice, every such thought caused a guilty twitch in my neck, as if someone had dropped a sleek, stinky ferret there. Guilt ferrets are bastards.

  Kevin Hearne

  Ferrets, Necks, Stinky

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.1055, Del Rey

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• No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guilt, no judges, no hierarchies; Only silent equality.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Punishment, Justice, Judging

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• Negrophobes exist. It is not hatred of the Negro, however, that motivates them; they lack the courage for that, or they have lost it. Hate is not inborn; it has to be constantly cultivated, to be brought into being, in conflict with more or less recognized guilt complexes. Hate demands existence and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behavior; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching. Each to his own side of the street.

  Frantz Fanon

  Hate, Lynching, Hatred

  Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.53, Pluto Press

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• He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this.

  Patrick deWitt

  Fighting, Abet

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.40, Granta Books

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• The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far.

  Paulo Coelho

  Giving Up, Order, Soul

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• I didn't even know a heart could beat so loudly...it reminds me of an Edgar Allen Poe story we had to read in one of our...classes...it's supposed to be a story about guilt and the dangers of civil disobedience, but when I first read it I thought it seemed kind of lame and melodramatic. Now I get it, though. Poe must have snuck out a lot when he was young.

  Lauren Oliver

  Heart, Class, Stories

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• Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Reading, Men, Hands

  "The Marriage Plot: A Novel". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2011.

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• Unless you can change the past, you’re wasting the present on this guilt

  Christopher Moore

  Past

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• we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

  Paulo Coelho

  Real, Possibility, Born

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• Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Overcoming

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.875, Macmillan

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• the act does not create guilt unless the mind is also guilty.

  William Landay

  Mind, Doe, Guilty

  William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.129, Delacorte Press

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• There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for me to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed or enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Innocent Man, Law

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.334, Hamilton Books

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• It's of no use to look back and say, "I should have been different." At any given moment, we are the way we are, and we see what we're able to see. For that reason, guilt is always inappropriate.

  Joko Beck

  Should Have, Different, Looks

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• You said to me once that you weren’t what I dreamed of. You were right. You surpass everything I dreamed of. Even the rot in you that’s caused you to do shameful things. Some men let the rot and guilt fester into something ugly beyond words. Few men can turn it into worth and substance. If you’re gods’ blessed for no other reason, it’s for that.

  Melina Marchetta

  Blessed, Men, Substance

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• Certainly. But take this into consideration: of every ten problems we have, nine are created by our own selves - through guilt, self-punishment, self-pity. However, from time to time a great obstacle appears in our path, which was put there by God, and which is there for a reason. The reason is: to give us the opportunity to change everything, to move forwards.

  Paulo Coelho

  Moving, Opportunity, Self

  Paulo Coelho (2015). “Warrior of the Light -”, p.22, Booklassic

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• Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Choices, Hatred, Weakness

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

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• The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions.

  Joyce Meyer

  Passion, Numbers, Negative

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• We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.

  Thomas Harris

  Children, Day Care, Stranger

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• Until Gettysburg," she continued, "I was working for the wrong reasons. At first it was to prove myself worthy in someone's eyes. Later it was out of guilt, trying to find atonement in God's eyes. But atonement is free, never earned. And I've learned that the only person I need to please with my life is God.

  Lynn Austin

  Eye, Trying, Needs

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• Anger was better than tears, better than grief, better than guilt.

  George R. R. Martin

  Grief, Tears

  George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.589, Bantam

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