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To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

W. H. Auden
Mean, Choices, Guilt
"The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays" by W. H. Auden, ("The Guilty Vicarage"), (p. 157), 1962.
To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however good I may become, remains unchanged.