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De Profundis
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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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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
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Born:
October 16, 1854
Died:
November 30, 1900
(aged 46)
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