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De Profundis — Oscar Wilde

Book · Language: English · Level: hard · Author: Oscar Wilde · ≈ 118 min · 17690 words

Topics: класика

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DE PROFUNDIS

. . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of which is regulated after an unchangeable pattern, so that we eat and drink and lie down and pray, or kneel at least for prayer, according to the inflexible laws of an iron formula: this immobile quality, that makes each dreadful day in the very minutest detail like its brother, seems to communicate itself to those external forces the very essence of whose existence is ceaseless change. Of seed-time…

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Transcribed from the 1913 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Note that later editions of De Profundis contained more material. The most complete editions are still in copyright in the U.S.A.

Source: gutenberg.org/ebooks/921

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