Oscar Wilde. The Picture Of Dorian Gray (№ 847)
I sympathize with everything, except human misery. To him, I cannot sympathize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. In the universal compassion for the suffering, there is something in the highest degree unhealthy. To sympathize with the beauty, colours and pleasures of life. And the less said about the dark sides of it.
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