“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.”
More from Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature…”
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”