Thursday, November 7, 2013

Why we need fairytales: Jeanette Winterson on Oscar Wilde


"Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it seems as if a child could reach it in a summer's day. And so a child could. But with me and such as I am it is different. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow … "
– Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"

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