One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember it…

Oscar Wilde
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One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2015). The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly), p.65, Mondial
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