In a letter from late December of 1893, after a recent rift, Wilde writes to Douglas: My dearest Boy,. Thanks for your letter.The letter concludes: "You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. "All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. This document is an introduction to a collection of interviews with Oscar Wilde from his tour of America in 1882. Selecting Text Exemplars. The following text samples primarily serve to exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require. Oscar Wilde remarks that "the true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Warring' Angels is a very sad and suggestive story. It contains no impossible heroine and no improbable hero, but is simply a faithful transcript from life.