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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themsel

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. – Oscar Wilde

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Ethics
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything. – Oscar Wilde

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Portraits
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. – Oscar Wilde

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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp

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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. – Georges Bataille

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What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and groveling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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