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Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes: Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...
         

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. World's had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...


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