No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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Bad women tempt one. Good women bore one. That is the difference between them.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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Give women the right moment and the women could do anything.
from the book "Perugina Baci" by Baci Perugina
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Duty is what one expects from others.
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Only the great masters of style ever succeeded in being obscure.
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But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
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Humility in the artist is his frank acceptance of all experiences, as in love, in the artist, it's simply the sense of beauty that manifests to the world his body and soul.
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I don't write to please convent girls, I write to please myself.
Written on tuesday january 22, 2013