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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

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Oscar Wilde
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I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie Death Wish, but for the end of all human life. – John Hodgman

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I stay way from that area, and theres only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death. – Peter Steele

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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction. – Jean de la Bruyere

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Death may be the King of terrors… but Jesus is the King of kings! – Dwight L. Moody

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It was my mothers idea. Her feeling was that I didnt have the intelligence to pick a trade myself. – Vidal Sassoon

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Foreign diplomats in Rome disconsolately say, Italy is the opposite of Russia. In Moscow nothing is known, yet everything is clear. In Rome everything is public, there are no secrets, everybody talks, things are at times flamboyantly enacted, yet one understands nothing. – Luigi Barzini

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