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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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Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
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The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.
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It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.
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If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
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I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
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In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
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