"For he who sins a second time Wakes a dead soul to pain, And draws it from its spotted shroud, And makes it bleed again, And makes it...

"Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward...

"We were soon joined by Elizabeth. Time had altered her since I last beheld her; it had endowed her with loveliness surpassing the beauty...

"But is it not a duty to the survivors that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief? It...

"The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the...

"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to...

"Rising to the shallows, out of the depths from whence she swam, some foresaw it in the stars, some read it in the tarots, those that...

"And the end of it all is that I have got to forgive you. I must do so. I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but...

"I cannot reconstruct my letter, or rewrite it. You must take it as it stands, blotted in many places with tears, in some with the signs...

I'm not well As you can tell By the way I haven't looked you in the eye And I'm about to lie And say I'm fine But inside, you and I know...

"By the terrible alchemy of egotism you converted your remorse into rage." — Oscar Wilde, De Profundis