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Oscar Wilde

“Truth in art is not any correspondence between the essential idea and the accidental existence; it is not the resemblance of shape to shadow, or of the form mirrored in the crystal to the form itself; it is no echo coming from a hollow hill anymore than it is a silver well of water in the valley that shows the moon to the moon and Narcissus to Narcissus.”

Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
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De Profundis De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
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