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  1. Paul Beatty _ The Sellout

    I understand now that the only time black people don't feel guilty is when we've actually done something wrong, because that relieves us of the cognitive dissonance of being black and innocent, and in a way the prospect of going to jail becomes a relief."
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  2. Theodor Storm _ Der Schimmelreiter

    Euere Schuld, Deichgraf!" schrie eine Stimme aus dem Haufen.
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  3. Max Frisch _ Montauk

    Sie wird gebraucht, unsere Schuld, sie rechtfertigt viel im Leben anderer.
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  4. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by the experience of a woman who had lost everything because of her child. Tereza would listen and believe that being a mother was the highest value in life and that being a mother was a great sacrifice. If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.
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  5. Franz Kafka _ In the Penal Colony

    Guilt is never to be doubted.
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  6. Nikki Sex _ Abuse

    What has been done to you is one thing. Yet to really suffer, to truly be burdened with guilt and shame, such pain always begins not with what has been done to you-but with what you have done. André Chevalier
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  7. J.D. Robb _ Memory in Death

    Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it?"She bit his good shoulder. "You're about to find out."She toppled them both off the bench and onto the mat. "Well, ouch. I take it guilt doesn't bring out your gentler side.
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  8. Edgar Allan Poe _ The Tell-Tale Heart and Other

    True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
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  9. Aimee Bender _ Willful Creatures

    No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.
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  10. Randy Alcorn _ Money, Possessions and

    Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.
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  11. Alexander McCall Smith _ Tea Time for the Traditionally

    It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'll take the shoes," she said firmly."
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  12. Mitch Albom _ Tuesdays with Morrie

    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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