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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

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I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Prison
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Oscar Wilde
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To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist — the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with ones vinegar. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Cooking, Culinary
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Oscar Wilde
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In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. – Elias Canetti

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Death

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. – Pope John XXIII

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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. Its still better than high school. – Dan Savage

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Heartbreak is not lessened by the day. Nor is sorrow diminished when washed by night. Sleep will not visit the incomplete soul. – My FGR friend for life, Tim Irwin, 2013

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