"I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad."

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“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

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