“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
Oscar Wilde book The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying (1889)
“Art is not imitation but illusion.”
— Charles Reade, book Christie Johnstone
Source: Christie Johnstone (1853), CHAPTER XII.
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