"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 truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.
~ Oscar Wilde ~












The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and ...
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