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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
Depressing, Being Sad, Guilt
Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.221, Penguin
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.