It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wro…

Hannah Arendt
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It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2006). Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, p.221, Penguin
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It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2006). Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, p.221, Penguin

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