Happiness Quote by Dennis Oppenheim

“Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.” quote by Dennis Oppenheim — Download Open image

“Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.”

Dennis Oppenheim

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