The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it inte…

Oscar Wilde
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.3, Wordsworth Editions
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1997). Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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