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Tom Stoppard Quotes

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Tom Stoppard

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Category:
English Dramatist Quotes
Date of Birth:
July 3, 1937
Nationality:
English
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