“You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing.”

—  Oscar Wilde , A Woman of No Importance

Source: A Woman of No Importance

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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