I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am goin…

Oscar Wilde
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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1962). Letters
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I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over. ✨ Oscar Wilde (1962). Letters

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