Quotes from book
De Profundis

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to "Bosie" .

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“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

De Profundis (1897)
Variant: Where there is no love there is no understanding.

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“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 book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

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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 book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

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“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

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“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 book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

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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 book De Profundis

De Profundis (1897)