The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart

Oscar Wilde
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, Epistola : in carcere et vinculis, p.108, Oxford University Press on Demand
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