I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capab…

Oscar Wilde
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, Epistola : in carcere et vinculis, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand
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I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art. ✨ Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, Epistola : in carcere et vinculis, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

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