
I don’t want to earn my living, I want to live.
– Oscar Wilde
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- Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on… The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude. – Oscar Wilde
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- Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. – Oscar Wilde
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