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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde: imperfection. They were not part of my scheme of life. They had
no place in my philosophy. My mother, who knew life as a whole,
used often to quote to me Goethe's lines - written by Carlyle in a
book he had given her years ago, and translated by him, I fancy,
also:-
'Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
Who never spent the midnight hours
Weeping and waiting for the morrow, -
He knows you not, ye heavenly powers.'
They were the lines which that noble Queen of Prussia, whom
Napoleon treated with such coarse brutality, used to quote in her
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