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Hate blinds people.  You were not aware of that. Subtly, silently, and in secret, Hate gnawed at your nature.  Your terrible lack of imagination, the one really fatal defect of your character, was entirely the result of the Hate that lived in you.  That faculty in you which Love would have fostered, Hate poisoned and paralysed.  The aim of Love is to love, no more, no less.  For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you. I knew, if I allowed myself to hate you, that in the dry desert of existence over which I had to travel, and am traveling still, every rock would lose its shadow, every palm tree be withered, every well of water prove poisoned at its source.  Are you beginning now to understand a little?  Is it beginning to dawn on you what love is?  It is not too late for you to learn, though to teach it to you I may have had to go to a convict’s cell.

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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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