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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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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not. – Oscar Wilde

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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names, it characterizes, it passes judgment, in that it creates. – Thomas Mann

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Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy. – Akhenaton

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Patience is the art of concealing your impatience. – Guy Kawasaki

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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. – Edith Wharton

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If names are not correct, language will not be in accordance with the truth of things. – Confucius

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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained. – Major Taylor

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