"Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary.  Your true identity has remained untouched.  You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it."

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However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

— Friedrich Nietzsche