The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell …

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The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. ✨ 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.341, Oxford University Press on Demand
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