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This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.

Atul Gawande
Guilt, Done, Shame
Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.61, Profile Books
This was not guilt: guilt is what you feel when you have done something wrong. What I felt was shame: I was what was wrong.