Oscar Wilde foi preso no dia vinte e seis de abril de mil oitocentos e noventa e cinco por gross indecency and shameful acts towards men, (e não no dia seis como diz o P2 de hoje).
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Dear Bosie - After long and fruitless waiting I have determined to write to you myself, as much for your sake as for mine, as I would not like to think that I had passed through two long years of imprisionment without ever having received a single line from you, or any news or message even, except such as gave me pain.
Our ill-fated and most lamentable friendship has ended in ruin and public infamy for me, yet the memory of our ancient affection is often with me, and the thought that loathing, bitterness and contempt should ever take that place in my heart once held by love is sad to me (...)
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WILDE, Oscar - De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Writings. Hertfordshire : Wordsworth, 1999. €3,56