All art is quite useless.Oscar Wilde
“Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.”
Austrian writer · 1881 – 1942
Austrian writer (1881–1942), author of the memoir The World of Yesterday and the novella Chess Story; one of the most widely translated writers of his time.
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