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“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
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“every portrait that is painted with feeling 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.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“When you're through changing, you're through.”
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“The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.”
― Think and Grow Rich
― Think and Grow Rich
“Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are—my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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