Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it. -Oscar Wilde

 

Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it.


-Oscar Wilde
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She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

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