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Oscar Wilde

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

 
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Between the finite and the infinite
The missing link of Love has left a void.
Supply the link, and earth with Heaven will join
In one continued chain of endless life.

 
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