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Quote by Oscar Wilde
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the a

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

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Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. – Oscar Wilde

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Prayer
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It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. – Oscar Wilde

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Truth
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. – Oscar Wilde

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Technology
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Perfection in art, as often in life, is better captured by eraser than pencil. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. – Oscar Wilde

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Art

I was very much into buying contemporary art, but Ive just decided I want to get rid of it all. Not that its not great art, but all of a sudden my mood has changed, and I want to go back to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters. – Sylvester Stallone

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The silent man is the best to listen to. – Japanese Proverb

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The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newtons formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. – Paul Davies

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If Id written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism. – Hunter S. Thompson

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