Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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