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guilt
«The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| About:
Writers
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delinquent, delinquents, guilt-ridden, guilt, practicing, recluse, ridden
«When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the lightest action but by the most harmless pleasure, I feel Man to be of all living things the most biologically incompetent and ill-organized. Why has he acquired a seventy years life-span only to poison it incurably by the mere being of himself? Why has he thrown Conscience, like a dead rat, to putrefy in the well?»
Author: Cyril Connolly
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accumulation, accumulations, acquired, biologically, carry through, contemplate, Fed, garbage, garbage can, guilt, harmless, incompetent, incompetents, incurably, lightest, organized, poison, putrefied, putrefy, rat, remorse, seventies, seventy, span, spanned, spanning, spans, The WELL, thrown
«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.»
«Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence: None knew, till guilt created fear, What darts or poisoned arrows were»
«The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Mankind,
Power
| Keywords:
aided, aiding, granting, guilt, mutual, mutual aid, perish
«To take upon oneself not punishment, but guilt - that alone would be godlike»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
godlike, guilt, oneself, punishment