"If the processes of the subconscious can be put into rational terms at all, I think mine were something like this: (a) I have murdered a man in cold blood; (b) I am a decent and humane person, as men go, certainly not vicious or depraved; therefore (c) the conventional attitude toward the act of murder is invalid and immoral."
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From the letter, purportedly written by James Corrigan to Nero Wolfe, confessing his crimes, Chapter 19
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