Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinio…

Oscar Wilde
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. ✨ Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897
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