youcanlevitateme: It’s an unusual site in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Author and playwright Oscar Wilde’s body rests in a tomb speckled with lipstick marks from visitors from all over the world showing their literary appreciation. The kisses display a rainbow of colors — so much so that travel experts say Oscar Wilde’s name on the tomb can be hard to discern sometimes. Wilde, who died in 1900 from cerebral meningitis, continues to be a celebrated literary figure today famous for his tabooed sexuality at the time. 

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It’s an unusual site in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Author and playwright Oscar Wilde’s body rests in a tomb speckled with lipstick marks from visitors from all over the world showing their literary appreciation.

The kisses display a rainbow of colors — so much so that travel experts say Oscar Wilde’s name on the tomb can be hard to discern sometimes. Wilde, who died in 1900 from cerebral meningitis, continues to be a celebrated literary figure today famous for his tabooed sexuality at the time. 

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    I’ve kissed this stone so many times. :*