“I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.”

—  Oscar Wilde

Source: De Profundis and Other Writings

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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