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Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XVII
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Force yourself to write.

You are looking better than you used to look; your eyes are brighter, your face clearer." The old smile came back into his eyes, the deathless humour.
"I've had a rest cure, Frank," he said, and smiled feebly.
"You should give record of this life as far as you can, and of all its influences on you.

You have conquered, you know.

Write the names of the inhuman brutes on their foreheads in vitriol, as Dante did for all time." "No, no, I cannot: I will not: I want to live and forget.

I could not, I dare not, I have not Dante's strength, nor his bitterness; I am a Greek born out of due time." He had said the true word at last.
"I will come again and see you," I replied.


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