“Yes, very sensible… People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”

— Oscar Wilde , book The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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