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“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories
― The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.'
'How pleasant then to be insane!”
― The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories
'How pleasant then to be insane!”
― The Diamond as Big as the Ritz, and Other Stories

“We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of mist; the false, the one we love when we live with others, the practical, the useful, the one we end up by being put in a coffin.”
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“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― The Go-Between
― The Go-Between

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