De Profundis
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The one disgraceful, unpardonable, and to all time contemptible action of my life was to allow myself to appeal to society for help and protection.
I can be perfectly happy by myself. With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
When he says, ‘Forgive your enemies,’ it is not for the sake of the enemy, but for one’s own sake that he says so,
If I may not find it's secret within myself, I shall never find it: If I have not got already, it will never come to me.
I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. I am trying to say so, though they may not think it at the present moment. This pitiless indictment I bring without pity against myself. Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
Her death was terrible to me; but I, once a lord of language, have no words in which to express my anguish and my shame.