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chapter-021		chapter-021			.txt	text/plain	3837	203	85	The more I considered the matter, the more clearly I saw, or thought I saw, that the only chance of salvation for Oscar was to get him to work, to give him some purpose in life, and the reader should remember here that at this time I had not read "De Profundis" and did not know that Oscar in prison had himself recognised this necessity. "A base sophism, Frank, mere sophistry, as you know: a good lunch is better than a bad one for any living man." His second fall after leaving prison had put him "at war with himself." This is, I think, the very heart of truth about his soul; the song of sorrow, of pity and renunciation was not his song, and the experience of suffering prevented him from singing the delight of life and the joy he took in beauty.	./cache/chapter-021.txt	./txt/chapter-021.txt