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De Profundis quotes

Oscar Wilde

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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.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“The final mystery is oneself.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“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, De Profundis
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“For prison life with its endless privations and restrictions makes one rebellious. The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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