Life is as a slate where all our sins are written: from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it, in order to begin to sin anew.


A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (1884)


Life is as a slate where all our sins are written: from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it, in order to begin to sin anew.

Life is as a slate where all our sins are written: from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it, in order to begin to sin anew.

Life is as a slate where all our sins are written: from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it, in order to begin to sin anew.

Life is as a slate where all our sins are written: from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it, in order to begin to sin anew.