Quotes from Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself