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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwrite, poet, novelist,
short story writer, homosexual, and Freemason. Known for his barbed and
clever wit , he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian
London and one of the greatest celebrities of his day and a close friend
of Irish poet William Butler Yeats. As the result of a famous trial, Wilde
suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned after being convicted
of the offence of "gross indecency," which also included homosexual
acts not amounting to buggery in British legislation. His lifestyle and
humorous wit soon made him the spokesman for Aestheticism.
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De Profundis
by Oscar Wilde
. . . 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 or harvest, of the reapers bending over
the corn, or the grape gatherers threading through the vines, of the grass
in the orchard made white with broken blossoms or strewn with fallen fruit:
of these we know nothing and can know nothing.
“Religion does not help me. The faith that others give to what is unseen, I give to what I can touch and look at. When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods -- Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.”
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Wilde's socialism
Paris has had its fair share of famous people die in it. Most of them
have ended up in the Pere La Chaise cemetery and Oscar Wilde is one
of them. Of all the people buried there, that was the one grave I had
to see when I entered that cemetery on a brisk March morning. I admire
him because he was the master of that Irish pastime of extracting the
Michael.
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