“It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own error—not that for which…”
It was foul, and I loved it. I loved to perish. I loved my own error—not that for which I erred, but the error itself.
Augustine of Hippo · Confessions · NPNF1 I, Confessions, Book II, chapter iv, 9
The conclusion he draws from stealing pears he did not want and threw to the pigs: what he had enjoyed was not the fruit and not even the gain, but the wrongdoing, and that is what frightens him about it.
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Read in Pilkington, NPNF series 1 vol. 1 (1886) · J. G. Pilkington, M.A.
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