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Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (of 2)

CHAPTER XXI
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He could win back everything; his own respect, and the respect of his fellows, if indeed that were worth winning.

An artist, I knew, must have at least the self-abnegation of the hero, and heroic resolution to strive and strive, or he will never bring it far even in his art.

If I could only get Oscar to work, it seemed to me everything might yet come right.

I spent a week with him, lunching and dining and putting all this before him, in every way.
I noticed that he enjoyed the good eating and the good drinking as intensely as ever.

He was even drinking too much I thought, was beginning to get stout and flabby again, but the good living was a necessity to him, and it certainly did not prevent him from talking charmingly.


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