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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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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. – Oscar Wilde

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. – Oscar Wilde

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Prayer
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Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an deaths the other. – Tennessee Williams

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Im not on the run from anything and Im not at all clear about what Im running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, Im totally exhausted. – Fiona Shaw

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Death

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death. – Michel de Montaigne

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Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. – Theodor Adorno

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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it. – Bear Grylls

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. – Kingsley Amis

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