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 1       2, IV  |                CHAPTER IV~ ~9. Theft is punished by thy law,
 2       2, IV  |    poor thief who is driven to theft by want. Yet I had a desire
 3       2, IV  |     what I stole, but only the theft and the sin itself.~There
 4       2, VI  |      12. What was it in you, O theft of mine, that I, poor wretch,
 5       2, VI  |       were not, for you were a theft. But are you anything at
 6       2, VI  |        ask what it was in that theft of mine that caused me such
 7       2, VI  |     then, that I loved in that theft? And wherein was I imitating
 8       2, VIII|   shame - above all, from that theft, which I loved only for
 9       2, VIII|     which I loved only for the theft’s sake? And, as the theft
10       2, VIII|      theft’s sake? And, as the theft itself was nothing, I was
11       2, VIII|       not, therefore, love the theft alone - yet, indeed, it
12       2, VIII|        indeed, it was only the theft that I loved, for the companionship
13       2, VIII| satisfied with the mere act of theft by which my pleasure was
14       2, IX  |        not have committed that theft alone. My pleasure in it