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Is there...
going to be trouble?
:20:07
I hope not.
:20:09
I believe a prosecution
:20:11
would certainly succeed
:20:12
provided, and I stress this,
:20:14
provided there is
no truth whatever
:20:16
in the accusation
made by Lord Queensberry.
:20:18
Of course there's
no truth in it.
:20:22
Then so long as I have
Mr Wilde's assurance
:20:25
that that is indeed
the case...
:20:36
There is no truth
in the accusation whatever.
:20:40
Good.
:20:42
Excellent.
:20:45
The defence, I understand,
:20:46
will be led
by Mr Edward Carson.
:20:48
Old Ned?
:20:50
I was at college with him
in Dublin.
:20:52
No doubt he'll perform his task
:20:54
with all the added bitterness
of an old friend.
:20:58
In writing
a book or a play,
:21:00
I'm concerned entirely
with literature -
:21:02
with art.
:21:03
I do not aim at doing
good or evil,
:21:05
but at making a thing
:21:07
that will have
some quality of beauty.
:21:09
Here is one of your...
:21:11
pieces of literature.
:21:13
"Wickedness is a myth
invented by good people
:21:15
"to account for the curious
attractiveness of others. "
:21:23
D'you think that true?
:21:24
I rarely think anything
I write is true.
:21:27
"If one tells the truth,
:21:29
"one is sure, sooner or later,
to be found out. "
:21:34
That is a pleasing paradox
:21:36
but I don't set very high store
by it as an axiom.
:21:39
Is it good for the young?
:21:41
Anything's good
that stimulates thought,
:21:43
at whatever age.
:21:45
Whether moral
or immoral?
:21:46
There is no such thing
:21:47
as morality or
immorality in thought.
:21:49
What about this,
then?
:21:51
"Pleasure is the only thing
one should live for. "
:21:56
I think that
the realisation of oneself
:21:58
is the prime aim of life,