Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experie…

Oscar Wilde
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Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic ✨ Oscar Wilde (2014). The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde, p.34, Courier Corporation
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