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Oscar Wilde

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Romantic

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Oscar Wilde is suggesting that romance often involves fooling or misleading someone about true feelings or intentions. He implies that what people celebrate as love can sometimes be based on illusions rather than genuine truth.

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