" Men can
return to where they have done evil deeds,
but men do not return to where they’ve been
abased. On this point God’s design and our
own feeling of abasement coincide
so absolutely that we quit: the night,
the rotting beast, the exultant mobs, our homes,
our hearthfires, Bacchus in a vacant lot
embracing Ariadne in the dark. "

― Joseph Brodsky