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For in fact we are always paying ourselves back and not someone else.
We enter the world as a minute part of the life we are given, and from then on we are ever paying off debts. To ourselves. For ourselves. In order for the final reckoning to tally.”
The risks, dangers, hardships and constant struggle with doubt must only burden you. For, after all, they are components of the penance, the expiation of guilt you want to earn. A baptism of fire, I’d say.
A sense of guilt, as well as the need for expiation, for a cleansing baptism of fire, aren’t things you can claim an exclusive right to.
Life differs from banking because it has debts which are paid off by running up debts with others.”
“Ignorance”—Regis smiled—“is no justification for ill-conceived actions. When one doesn’t know or has doubts it’s best to seek advice…”
In this rotten world, Zoltan Chivay, goodness, honesty and integrity become deeply engraved in the memory.”
It’s obvious that only the woman can make a decision like that. It’s her inalienable right.
