Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.
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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.Oscar Wilde
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.
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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
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