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“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It's easy to believe in something when you win all the time...The losses are what define a man's faith.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband