“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

— Oscar Wilde , book De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900

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Source: A Study of American Liberalism and its Relationship to Modern Totalitarian States (1938)
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