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“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?” William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure” - 1623

“It is one thing to know that a man is guilty, it is quite another matter to prove him so.” Agatha Christie, “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” - 1920

“But the greater the difficulty, the greater the glory; for no occasion arises that can excuse a man for being guilty of injustice.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Duties” - 44 BC

“Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.” Jane Austen, “Mansfield Park” - 1814

“There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.” Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot” - 1953

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Hence, also, we are all innocent to begin with, and this merely means that neither we nor others know the evil of our own nature; it only appears with the motives, and only in time do the motives appear in knowledge.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“Perhaps it was more painful to think of a guilty man than of a dead man.” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947

“I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three men, and of these three two were priests.” Voltaire, “Candide” - 1759

“When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a...” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind: The thief doth fear each bush an officer.” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 3” - 1595

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“It is an heretic that makes the fire, not she which burns in't.” William Shakespeare, “The Winter's Tale” - 1623

“when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“For such defects, and not for other guilt, Lost are we and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.” Dante Alighieri, “Divine Comedy” - 1320

“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, Cloquet thought, while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.” Woody Allen, “Side Effects” - 1980

“The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“guilt is a rope that wears thin” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression” Philip K. Dick, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” - 1968

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