Which figure of speech is used in this text?

His guardians were extremely old-fashioned people and did not realize that we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

paradox

euphemism

The figure of speech used in this text is a paradox. The statement contradicts itself by stating that unnecessary things are necessities.

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