De Profundis
De Profundis is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in the late 19th century. This reflective work blends autobiography and philosophical musings, exploring themes of suffering, love, and redemption, particularly in relation to his tumultuous relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde contemplates the nature of pain and personal transformation, suggesting that true artistic insight arises from suffering. The text serves as a profound meditation on isolation, remorse, and the search for meaning in the face of adversity.
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.””
— Oscar Wilde
“Hearts are made to be broken.””
— Oscar Wilde
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?””
— Oscar Wilde
“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart”
— Oscar Wilde
“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.””
— Oscar Wilde
“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.””
— Oscar Wilde
“When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.””
— Oscar Wilde
“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?””
— Oscar Wilde
“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.””
— Oscar Wilde
