"I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to ...

The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.
~ Oscar Wilde ~












The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives.

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