“The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.”

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde - “The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him...” 1

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