if each , i told myself , could be housed in separate identities , life would be relieved of all that was unbearable ; the unjust might go his way , delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin ; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path , doing the good things in which he found his pleasure , and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil .