I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cann…

Oscar Wilde
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I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1962). The letters of Oscar Wilde
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