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From the beginning Wilde performed his life and continued to do so even after fate had taken the plot out of his hands.
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W. H. Auden, "An Improbable Life," review of The Letters of Oscar Wilde (editor, Rupert Hart-Davis) in The New Yorker, (9 March 1963).

 

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