For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.[Car s’il y a un péché contre la vie, ce n’est peut-être pas tant d’en désespérer que d’espérer une autre vie, et se dérober à l’implacable grandeur de celle-ci.]

Source:Lyrical and critical essays (1968), Part I. Lyrical Essays, Chapter II. Nupitals (Noces) (1938), Section 3. Summer in Algiers, Page 91
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