My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the
other of us has to go.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-- in Frank Harris Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1930) p. 572
-- To Claire de Pratz, 29 October 1900
other of us has to go.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
-- in Frank Harris Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1930) p. 572
-- To Claire de Pratz, 29 October 1900
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