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From: "fred.fauquier" <fred.fauquier@infonie.fr>
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Subject: Re: [Probably] Not Classics
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:27:55 +0200
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It sounds like a parody of Augustine's "Confessions" II, iv, 9 (the famous
robbery of pears): "I loved my sin, not for what I sinned, but my sin
itself". (I don't have the latin text).

Frédéric Fauquier
fred.fauquier@infonie.fr
A.T.E.R. Département de philosophie
Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier III

----- Original Message -----
From: Diana Wright <dgw1@nyu.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 5:37 PM
Subject: [Probably] Not Classics


> Can anyone identify this quotation I copied many years ago, without
> noting the source?  My own guesses are Augustine or Kierkegaard.
>
> "I sinned, not for the pleasure I had in the sin, but for the pleasure I
> had to write feelingly of it."
>
> DW
>


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