If life were to be found on a planet, then it would also have been contaminated by original sin and would require salvation

If there is sin against life, it consists… in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

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

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.