"Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action."

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Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

— Rainer Maria Rilke