The curves of your lips rewrite history.

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The curves of your lips rewrite history.

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1891

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 20.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1891, ch. 20.

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