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Every portrait that is painted with feelings is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

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Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

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The bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.



(Oscar Wilde, "The picture of Dorian Gray")