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Oscar Wilde

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Oscar Wilde

Sympathy

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Oscar Wilde is criticizing how people today tend to focus too much on suffering and pain, finding it almost unhealthy or excessive. Instead, he believes we should pay more attention to the positive and beautiful aspects of life, rather than dwelling on its difficulties.

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