The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into…

Oscar Wilde
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The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts, p.66, Oxford University Press on Demand
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Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redma … ▶
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2000). Oscar Wilde - The Major Works, p.279, OUP Oxford
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand othe … ▶
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Harford Montgomery Hyde (1982). The annotated Oscar W … ▶
And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2014). Poems, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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