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Oscar Wilde's lipstick-covered Paris tomb to be protected by Dalya Alberge

Wilde's grave in Paris has been restored after decades of unusual lipstick tributes"A kiss may ruin a human life," Oscar Wilde once wrote. It can also ruin the stonework of a tomb, judging by the extraordinary graffiti " kisses in lipstick left by admirers " that for years have been defacing and even eroding the massive memorial to the Irish dramatist and wit in Paris's Père Lachaise cemetery.Wilde died in the city …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:06pm on November 26, 2011

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