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But when you don’t like your own life, when you know that you must change lives, you don’t have any choice, do you? What can one do to become another? Impossible.

The more I accuse myself, the more I have a right to judge you. Even better, I provoke you into judging yourself, and this relieves me of that much of the burden.

… and authors of confessions write especially to avoid confessing, to tell nothing of what they know

Wherefor, since we are all judges, we are all guilty before one another, all Christs in our mean manner, one by one criticized, always without knowing.

But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat in the one who has been there so long. Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity.

There are always reasons for murdering a man. On the contrary, it is impossible to justify his living.

Don’t wait for the Last Judgement. It takes place every day.

God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves.

Moreover, we cannot assert the innocence of anyone, whereas we can state with certainty the guilt of all.

One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn’t even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.