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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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What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)
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It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
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Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
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To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.
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Ah, on what little things does happiness depend.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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The wild Bee reels from bough to bough With his furry coat and his gauzy wing, Now in a lily cup, and now Setting a jacinth bell a-swing, In his wandering.
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
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It is personalities not principles that move the age.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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