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No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they wa

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true. – Oscar Wilde

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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

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