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21 " The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving. "
― Oscar Wilde , De Profundis
22 " I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. "
23 " I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you. "
24 " Art only begins where Imitation ends. "
25 " Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. "
26 " 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. "
27 " Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling, and Domine non sum dignus should be on the lips and in the hearts of those who receive it. "
28 " Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share. "
29 " Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole. "
30 " The bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation "
31 " I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that. "
32 " The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. "
33 " Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful. "
34 " When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice. It is only by realising what I am that I have found comfort of any kind. Now I am advised by others to try on my release to forget that I have ever been in a prison at all. I know that would be equally fatal. It would mean that I would always be haunted by an intolerable sense of disgrace, and that those things that are meant for me as much as for anybody else - the beauty of the sun and moon, the pageant of the seasons, the music of daybreak and the silence of great nights, the rain falling through the leaves, or the dew creeping over the grass and making it silver - would all be tainted for me, and lose their healing power, and their power of communicating joy. 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. "
35 " I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me "
36 " God made the world just as much for me as for any one else. "
37 " All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns. "
38 " Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling. "
39 " When he [Christ] says 'Forgive your enemies', it is not for the sake of the enemy but for one's own sake that he says so, and because Love is more beautiful than Hate. "
40 " One sometime feels that it is only with a front of brass and a lip of scorn that one can get through the day at all. "