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Nevertheless, during the entire time we were together, because of your constant claim on my attention and time, I never wrote a single line.  As long as you were by my side my life was entirely sterile and uncreative. The basis of character is will power and mine became subject to yours.  In your case one had to either give up to you, or give you up.  There was no alternative. You even convinced and goaded me into a libel suit against your father. The consequences of these actions leave me in tears in this terrible place. But I must keep love within me, or how else should I live another day?  Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are.  Only what is fine and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate. 

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from Oscar Wilde's De Profundis (2010), released June 13, 2011

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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