Plain Facts for Old and Young, Burlington, IA: Segner & Condit, 1881, p. 428 https://books.google.it/books?id=pubVzCbD_DMC&dq=%22a+dreadful%22&focus=searchwithinvolume.
Source: The Yellow Wall-Paper
“The worst sin any of us can commit is not committing any sin.”
Original: Il peccato peggiore che ognuno di noi possa commettere è non commettere alcun peccato.
Source: prevale.net
“Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.”
Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly)
L'Heptaméron (1558)
“How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.”
Vol. 2, Ch. 10
Midnight Oil (1971)
“The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.”
Source: Les Misérables
“I have committed the worst sin that can be committed. I have not been happy.”
He cometido el peor pecado que uno puede cometer. No he sido feliz.
"El Remordimiento" [Remorse] in La moneda de hierro [The Iron Coin], as quoted in Borges at Eighty : Conversations (1982) edited by Willis Barnstone, also in Hispanic Literature Criticism : Allende to Jiménez (1994), p. 298
Source: The Spirits' Book, p. 105.
Context: If demons existed, they would be the work of God; but would it he just on the part of God to have created beings condemned eternally to evil and to misery? If demons exist, it is in your low world, and in other worlds of similar degree that they are to be found. They are the human hypocrites who represent a just God as being cruel and vindictive, and who imagine that they make themselves agreeable to Him by the abominations they commit in His name.
Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 16
