You, who have achieved a great act of will--" But what he said was borne away like chaff.
"What good was it?
Everything is useless.

In spite of what I have tried to do, I am alone.

My sin cannot change the face of things.
"It is not by sin that we attain happiness, nor is it by virtue, nor is it by that kind of divine fire by which one makes great instinctive decisions and which is neither good nor evil.

It is by none of these things that one reaches happiness.

One /never/ reaches happiness." She paused, and said, as if she felt her fate recoiling upon her: "Yes, I know I have done wrong, that those who love me most would detest me if they knew.