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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Luxury, Done
Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.23, Diversion Books
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.