I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. ✨ Oscar Wild…

Oscar Wilde
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2000). Oscar Wilde - The Major Works, p.112, OUP Oxford
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I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2000). Oscar Wilde - The Major Works, p.112, OUP Oxford

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