De Profundis: Quotes

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• "The supreme vice is shallowness."

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• "I was a man who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age."

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• "To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development."

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• "Pain, unlike pleasure, wears no mask."

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• "Most people are other people."

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• "Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul."

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