We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. ✨ Oscar Wi…

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.476, Wordsworth Editions
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