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De profundis
| Author: | Wilde, Oscar
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| Language: | English | |
| Number of downloads: | 11 | |
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| Source: | http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13585 | |
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. . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of which is regulated after an unchangeable pattern, so that we eat and drink and lie down and pray, or kneel at... Show all...
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... Maar misschien vergisten de Grieken zich. Ik hoor in de moderne kunst herhaaldelijk den roep van Marsyas. Hij is bitter in Baudelaire, zoet en klagend in Lamartine, mystiek in Verlaine. Hij keert terug in de uitgestelde oplossingen van Chopins muziek. Hij is in de mistroostigheid die hangt over Burne-Jones' vrouwenfiguren. Zelfs Matthew Arnold wiens zang van "Callicles" in zoo hellen toon van lyrische schoonheid verhaalt van "den triomf der zoet overredende lier" en van "den roem der eindelijke zege", heeft hem meer dan eens....