A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. ✨ Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays, p.36, GENERAL PRESS
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