Wilde, verified
"Only one God has ever died."
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Every quote →"You wake in me each bestial sense, you make me what I would not be."
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"And weeps for every soul that dies, and weeps for every soul in vain."
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"Come forth you exquisite grotesque! half woman and half animal!"
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"A beautiful and silent Sphinx has watched me through the shifting gloom."
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"Lift up your large black satin eyes which are like cushions where one sinks!"
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