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Line 11: − Friends who visited him during the last days of his life have reported several versions of his 'dying words', including: − − "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or other of us has got to go." − "I am dying beyond my means." − "I can’t even afford to die."<ref>http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/w/wilde/oscar_wilde.htm</ref> − − As he was dying, he received [[absolution]] from a [[Roman Catholic]] priest, Father Cuthbert Dunne.
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Wilde died in 1900, three years after his release from prison. In the past he was thought to have died of syphilis, but more recent studies by Dr Ashley Robins of the University of Cape Town in South Africa report that he died of meningoencephalitis, following a serious ear infection. <ref>http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_oscarwilde.htm</ref>
Wilde died in 1900, three years after his release from prison. In the past he was thought to have died of syphilis, but more recent studies by Dr Ashley Robins of the University of Cape Town in South Africa report that he died of meningoencephalitis, following a serious ear infection. <ref>http://classiclit.about.com/cs/profileswriters/p/aa_oscarwilde.htm</ref>
==Wilde's Sexuality==
==Wilde's Sexuality==