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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Character Identity Mimicry Opinion Passion People
I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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Hustle Inspirational Possible Present
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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Man Mother Tragedy Women
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Deceive Love Onself Romance
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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Devil Hell Human Nature Mask World
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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Curosity Except People Rumors Worth
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
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Healing Let Go Love Self Respect Treat Value
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
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Power Reality Sex World
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Book Moral Reading Shame World
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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Die Discover Mistake People Regret Wisdom
One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
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Humour Love Marriage Reason
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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Break Up Goodnessbye Life Love Patience Wait
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
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History Humanity Laugh Man Past Serious World
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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Optimism Terror
With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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Book Flower Freedom Happiness Moon Perfection
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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Age Secret Trust Woman

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