All wishes, whatever their apparent content, have the same and unvarying meaning: 'I refuse to be what I am.'

The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the …

All pity is self-pity.

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.