![]() ![]() Oscar Wilde, De Profundis tags: identity, opinions 11411 likes Like Hearts are made to be broken. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Instead, it becomes a universal statement about love, injustice and the pain of living in the world. De Profundis by Oscar Wilde 17,620 ratings, 4.21 average rating, 1,703 reviews De Profundis Quotes Showing 1-30 of 335 Most people are other people. While the letter is a touching cri de coeur that offers fascinating insights into Wilde's life in prison and the background and psychology of a notorious affair, its eloquence, passion, and literary excellence raise it above the level of the purely personal. Nevertheless, it is clear from this letter that Wilde deeply loved Douglas and still harbored strong feelings for him, in spite of Douglas' role in Wilde's downfall. In it, he accuses Douglas of shallowness, selfishness, greed, gross interference with his artistic efforts and other faults and wrongdoing. While in prison, he wrote De Profundis, a long and bitter letter of recrimination addressed to Douglas. As a result of his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde was found guilty of homosexual offenses and jailed for two years. Renowned as a wit, poet, dramatist and one of the great conversationalists of his age, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) nevertheless fell victim to the forces of repression and prudery in late Victorian England. ![]()
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