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Added 2020-06-22 11:58:25 +0000 UTCWell, yesterday I read The Nightingale and the Rose. I almost cried. It’s so sad.
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Oh, I love Oscar Wilde's fairytales so much! They are so beautiful and so sad!
Samara Lilly (Sandra)
2020-06-22 18:24:57 +0000 UTCThat entire book of stories is just painfully beautiful and so sad!
Ineffable Penguin
2020-06-22 16:26:37 +0000 UTCThe Nightingale and the Rose is both one of my favorites and one of my least favorites. So beautiful and terrible at the same time.
Ashfae
2020-06-22 15:56:58 +0000 UTCReading it for the first time I had the feeling he thought to be totally useless, like the Nightingale. Himself and his own art: totally useless. You give your heart, your soul, your everything to the others and they throw it away.
Alice Rovai
2020-06-22 13:55:04 +0000 UTCThank you!! I love this!! I’ll definitely have to read this story, even though it’s sad, because so far I’ve only read his plays and “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” but I’m on a mission to read as much as he’s written as I can!
AngelBookshop Owner
2020-06-22 13:23:09 +0000 UTCYeah, the nightingale and the rose is one of those where you walk away going "But WHY SO SAD?!?" Like I get the message - don't sacrifice yourself for the sake of someone else - but also OH GOD!
m golden
2020-06-22 12:28:21 +0000 UTC
