The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

You are in every line I have ever read.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.

Dios sabe que nunca hemos de avergonzarnos de nuestras lágrimas, porque son la lluvia que limpia el cegador polvo de la tierra que recubre nuestros corazones endurecidos.

So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.