De Profundis

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To recognise that the soul of a man is unknowable, is the ultimate achievement of wisdom. The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

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Topic

Inner life The mysterious

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

De Profundis

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

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Topic

Sadness

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

De Profundis

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde

De Profundis

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Topic

Alienation from oneself Living inauthentically

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

De Profundis

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1897 1890s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

Georg Trakl

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Topic

Silence Stillness Solitude The forest

Author

Georg Trakl

Source

De Profundis Gedichte

Medium

Poem

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

German

Time

1912 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 0

Original Citation

Trakl, Georg. "De profundis." Gedichte. Contumax, 1913.

Current Citation

Trakl, Georg. "De profundis." To the Silenced, translated by Will Stone. Arc Publications, 2005.