With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their str…

Oscar Wilde
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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2015). The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics), p.219, Diversion Books
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