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...Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper ai

…Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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