#guilt

When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#sin #guilt

The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one--or both. Usually both. ↗

— Susan Sontag

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Holiday leaned her elbows on her desk. "You can't find one thing that points to his guilt." "He slept with your sister!" Burnett roared. "Guilty of murder, not of being a piece of shit. ↗

— C.C. Hunter

#holiday #guilt

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#psychology #guilt

Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#earn #fashion #feelings #guilt #people

Okay. I will go. But only if you will give me your guilt to take with me. ↗

— Lisa Schroeder

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I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days. ↗

— Alberto Manguel

#reading #guilt

He takes the guilt and responsibility that others can't. John takes the punches. I just take the hunger, and most times it feels like awful little. ↗

— A.C. Gaughen

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Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without guilt. ↗

— Staceyann Chin

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The guilt of not telling Frankie about Matt and me is overwhelming, but it's a pale second to the violation I feel that she read my most private, raw thoughts and destroyed them. She broke into my carefully guarded heart, stole the only remaining connection I had to Matt, and turned it into a monstrosity. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

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