Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's… — Oscar Wilde · Skopia

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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

De Profundis · 1897

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Wilde, Oscar. Letter to Lord Alfred Douglas. Jan.-Mar. 1897.

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