I am not a mechanism, an assembly of parts; And it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul–to the deep emotional self. And wounds to the soul take a long, long time–only time can help, And a certain difficult repentance: A freeing oneself from life’s mistake, And the endless repetition of life’s mistake That mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

D.H. Lawrence