I hated both...." Through the prison bars Oscar had begun to see how mistaken he had been, how much greater, and more salutary to the soul, suffering is than pleasure.
"Out of sorrow have the worlds been built, and at the birth of a child or a star there is pain." FOOTNOTES: [3] Cfr.

Appendix: "Criticisms by Robert Ross." [4] I give Oscar's view of the trial just to show how his romantic imagination turned disagreeable facts into pleasant fiction.

Oscar could only have heard of the trial, and perhaps his mother was his informant--which adds to the interest of the story.
[5] Permission to visit a dying mother is accorded in France, even to murderers.

The English pretend to be more religious than the French; but are assuredly less humane.
[6] "De Profundis." What Oscar called "the terrible part" of the book--the indictment of Lord Alfred Douglas--has since been read out in Court and will be found in the Appendix to this volume..