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“It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn’t mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“For with this desire of physical beauty mingled itself early the fear of death—the fear of death intensified by the desire of beauty.”
—Walter Pater 1839–1894, British writer, educator. originally published in Macmillan’s Magazine (Aug. 1878)