I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leavin…

Oscar Wilde
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I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1961). DE PROFUNDIS, p.33, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS
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