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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 forget life, to be at peace.”

- Oscar Wilde
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“Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.”

--Oscar Wilde on his death bed, November 3rd, 1900

Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde is beloved for his incomparable, grating wit. Even when the author was nearing death in Paris’s Hôtel d’Alsace (known simply as L’Hôtel today) he found the means to make one final, clever remark. Some … Continue reading

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