“One can survive everything nowadays except death.”

— Oscar Wilde

" Oscariana http://books.google.com/books?id=2otbAAAAMAAJ&q="One+can+survive+everything+nowadays+except+death"&pg=PA65#v=onepage" (1907)

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

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"The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (October 14, 1886)
Variant: One can survive everything nowadays except death.