Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Things have no hold on the soul. They have no access to it, cannot move or direct it. It is moved and directed by itself alone. It takes the things before it and interprets them as it sees fit. Book V
We can understand one another, but each of us can only interpret himself. Demian
Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else. Discourses
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