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I must remember that a good friend is a new world.

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It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

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It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .

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I put my talent in my work, I save my Genius for my life.

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

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How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

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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.

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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

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Before Turner there was no fog in London.

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Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess. We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

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I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.

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Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?

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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

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The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

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Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

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For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

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