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There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to… — Oscar Wilde

Novel · Magazine

There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1890
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NovelMagazine
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1890
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Oscar Wilde
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Current citation
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 7.
Original citation
Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 5.

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