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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Oscar Wilde
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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
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The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died.
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Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.
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