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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
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My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
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