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Quote by Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. – Oscar Wilde

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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. – Oscar Wilde

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Love
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There is luxury in self-reproach…. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. – Oscar Wilde

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Self
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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. – Anais Nin

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An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. – Edgard Varese

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I just wish the crowd I was associated with was more passionate about what they were doing and less consumed with the commerce of the art form. – Shia LaBeouf

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It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence. – Isadora Duncan

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Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. – Tony Robbins

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Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. – J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com

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Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. – Aphra Behn

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