Status Updates From de Profundis - Oscar Wilde

“I wanted to eat of the fruits of all the trees in the garden of the world…my only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sungilt side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and gloom.”


Me 🤝quotes about trees

“Suffering- as curious it may sound to you—is the means by which we exist, because it is the only means by which we become conscious of existing; and the remembrance of suffering in the past is necessary to us as the warrant, the evidence, of our continued identity.”

"We think in Eternity, but we move slowly through Time"
ok i forgot how beautiful and full of pain and sorrow this was
"in life, as in Art, the mood of rebellion closes up the channels of the soul, and shuts out the airs of heaven."
cf. in "The Soul of Man Under Socialism": "Disobedience is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."

Guy just compared him and his lover to jesus and judas. Very gay in the context of this book