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I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

John Steinbeck
Guilt, Feels, Uneasy
John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.51, Penguin

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 compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.

John Steinbeck
Thinking, Guilt, Inward
John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.150, Penguin

We gather our arms full of guilt as though it were precious stuff. It must be that we want it that way.

John Steinbeck
Guilt, Want, Arms
John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.235, Penguin

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