Status Updates From The Private Memoirs and Con...

“There is some miserable comfort in the idea that my tormentor shall fall with me.”

“One called me a monster of nature; another an incarnate devil; and another a creature made to be cursed in time and eternity. I retired from them and, winded my way southwards, comforting myself.”

“I desired to sleep; but it was for a deeper and longer sleep than that in which the senses were nightly steeped. I longed to be at rest and quiet, and close my eyes on the past and the future alike, as far as this frail life was concerned.”

"Dost thou not see that they tremble at thy presence, knowing that the avenger of blood is among them."

“I confess. But still I had hopes of forgiveness, because I never sinned from principle, but accident; and then I always tried to repent of these sins by the slump, for individually it was impossible; and, though not always successful in my endeavours, I could not help that, the grace of repentance being withheld from me, I regarded myself as in no degree accountable for the failure.”

"If I could repent me of all my sins, and shed tears of blood for them, still have I not a load of original transgression pressing on me that is enough to crush me to the lowest hell. I may be angry with my first parents for having sinned, but how I shall repent me of their sin is beyond what I am able to comprehend."

There's a quote that really struck me:

"But the oppressor who thinks of himself as serving God, or History, or the Party will never reform because his impulses of human decency appear to him as temptations to be resisted."

Very relevant considering that it's midterm season and Christian nationalism is on the rise.

a faustian twist!