"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
~ Oscar Wilde ~











Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art ...
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