Saint Augustine (Penguin Lives)

desire

• You were inside me and I was outside myself… You touched me, and I was all on fire for your peace.

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• I lived with only one woman and kept faith with her bed… their relationship was not the Roman legal concubinage form, since they did not intend to have children.

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shame

• He is naked in the baths, yet he says he is clothed — Augustine is here Adam after the fall, draped not in cloth but in shame.

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• The woman I lived with was torn out of my side. My heart, to which she had been grafted, was lacerated, wounded, shedding blood.

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faith-and-doubt

• I could not do what I far more ardently wanted to do… what I wanted was, precisely, to will.

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• I was made a riddle to myself… I was restrained within my own unhappy territory, unable to live there or to get out.

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