Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree…

Henry Miller
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Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. ✨ Henry Miller (1941). The Wisdom of the Heart, p.11, New Directions Publishing
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