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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: really ashamed of its own actions, and shuns those whom it has
punished, as people shun a creditor whose debt they cannot pay, or
one on whom they have inflicted an irreparable, an irremediable
wrong. I can claim on my side that if I realise what I have
suffered, society should realise what it has inflicted on me; and
that there should be no bitterness or hate on either side.
Of course I know that from one point of view things will be made
different for me than for others; must indeed, by the very nature
of the case, be made so. The poor thieves and outcasts who are
imprisoned here with me are in many respects more fortunate than I
am. The little way in grey city or green field that saw their sin
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