Patricia B. Dunkis

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this other, ‘Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.’ But the habit of the confessional reasserted itself: it was as if he were back in the little stuffy wooden boxlike coffin in which men bury their uncleanness with their priest. He said, ‘Mortal sin … danger … self-control,’ as if those words meant anything at all. He said, ‘Say three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys.’
The Power and the Glory
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