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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth centu

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

There is luxury in self-reproach…. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. – Oscar Wilde

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Self
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Oscar Wilde
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde

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Hunting
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Death
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide…? – Adrienne Rich

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Death

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death – the only certainty that life holds for us – must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life. – Stanislav Grof

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Death

As a kid, all I thought about was death. – Maurice Sendak

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Death

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to deaths perfect punctuation mark is a smile. – Julie Burchill

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Death

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Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools. – Proverb

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The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. – Erik H. Erikson

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Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness. – Bill Griffith, Griffith Observatory comic strip, 1977

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