One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.

“Dorian Gray listened, open-eyed and wondering. The spray of lilac fell from his…”

“Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease …”

“There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us …”