All writers of confessions from Augustine on down, have always remained a little in love with their sins.
If you can confess before a friend, you don't need a priest.
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.
We deny more than we confess. We hide more than we reveal. We assume because it makes us feel exposed if we have to ask. It's easier to say "I feel nothing" than to admit "I feel something." It takes...
Words are confessions of your actions. Choose them wisely.
Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.
Life is a misery, death an uncertainty. Suppose it steals suddenly upon me, in what state shall I leave this world? When can I learn what I have here neglected to learn? Or is it true that death will...
Pedro Algorta, a lawyer, showed me the fat dossier about the murder of two women. The double crime had been committed with a knife at the end of 1982, in a Montevideo suburb. The accused, Alma Di Agos...
I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea.
He was clearly not the murderer whom Hawksmoor was seeking, but it was generally the innocent who confessed: in the course of many enquiries, Hawksmoor had come across those who accused themselves of...