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repent and too early for him to condemn, and I
suppose it matters little to you either way.”
“I do not care, good men or bad men are all
the same to me.”
“It is no good sending for a priest who will
only tell me that I was born evil, that my thoughts
and my deeds were stained with sin, that I must
repent it all, retract it all. I repent little I have
done, I retract nothing. I have lived
according to my instinct and I believe my instinct was
sound. I have made a fool of myself often
enough when I tried to be guided by my reason.
It was because my reason was at fault, and I
have already been punished for it. I wish to
thank those who have been kind to me. Enemies
I have had few, most of them were doctors, they
did me but little harm, I went on my way just
the same. I wish to ask forgiveness from those
to whom I have given pain. That is all, the rest
concerns God and myself, not the priest, whom
I do not accept as my judge.”
“I do not like your priests. It is they who
have taught men to fear my approach with their
menace of eternity and their flaming hell. It is
they who have torn the wings from my shoulders
and disfigured my friendly face and turned me
into a hideous skeleton to wander from house to
house, scythe in hand, like a thief in the night
and to dance their Danse Macabre in the frescoes
on their cloister walls, hand in hand with their
saints and their damned. I have nothing to do
either with their heaven or with their hell. I
am a Natural Law.”
“I heard a golden oriole sing in the garden
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