The New Pleasure

Last night I invented a new pleasure, and as I was giving it the
first trial an angel and a devil came rushing toward my house. They
met at my door and fought with each other over my newly created
pleasure; the one crying, “It is a sin!”–the other, “It is a
virtue!”

- The Madman,His Parables and Poems

By Kahlil Gibran

~ by display_name on March 28, 2005.