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Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

  • waterhater2005has quoted2 years ago
    and into the cell of one’s heart, with such
  • b2522870304has quoted3 years ago
    Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
  • Antonellahas quoted4 years ago
    is happening to me now, and will happen to me again to-morrow. Remember this, and you will be able to understand a little of why I am writing, and in this manner writing. . . .
  • Antonellahas quoted4 years ago
    The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard.
  • b0209100522has quoted4 years ago
    The gods had given me almost everything. But I let myself be lured into long spells of senseless and sensual ease. I amused myself with being a flâneur, a dandy, a man of fashion. I surrounded myself with the smaller natures and the meaner minds. I became the spendthrift of my own genius, and to waste an eternal youth gave me a curious joy. Tired of being on the heights, I deliberately went to the depths in the search for new sensation. What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became to me in the sphere of passion. Desire, at the end, was a malady, or a madness, or both. I grew careless of the lives of others. I took pleasure where it pleased me, and passed on.
  • b0209100522has quoted4 years ago
    Suffering is permanent, obscure, and dark
    And has the nature of infinity.’
  • b0209100522has quoted4 years ago
    Our presence taints the pleasures of others. We are unwelcome when we reappear. To revisit the glimpses of the moon is not for us. Our very children are taken away. Those lovely links with humanity are broken. We are doomed to be solitary, while our sons still live. We are denied the one thing that might heal us and keep us, that might bring balm to the bruised heart, and peace to the soul in pain. . . .
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