Oscar Wilde - De Profundis

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If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.

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Clergyman and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

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Ultimately, the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or friendship, is conversation.

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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

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Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.

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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

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The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world's sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

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A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

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I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful

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All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death;

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I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

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A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

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Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

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Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.

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For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy.

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It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

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And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

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