Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have p…

Oscar Wilde
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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works. ✨ Quoted in Andre Gide, Letter to his mother, 30 Jan. 1895
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Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works. ✨ Quoted in Andre Gide, Letter to his mother, 30 Jan. 1895

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