Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with it's sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it and your soul grows sick with the longing for things it has forbidden to itself. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is the brain and the brain only that the great sins of the world take place also.

You have passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame...