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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.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
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Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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Death
Yesterday
Beautiful
Listen
Grasses
Earth
Tomorrow
Waving
Must
Silence
Soft
Time
Head
Forgive
Life
Forget
Brown
Lying
Grass
Peace
Forgiving

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