"There is, in fact, no way back

either to the wolf or to the child.

From the very start

there is no innocence

and no singleness.

Every created thing,

even the simplest,

is already guilty, already multiple.

It has been thrown

into the muddy stream of being

and may never more

swim back again to its source.

The way to innocence,

to the uncreated and to God

leads on, not back,

not back to the wolf or to the child,

but ever further into sin,

ever deeper into human life..."

(Treatise on the Steppenwolf)

(tnx Bernd)