![Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.](https://quotes.happiom.com/wp-content/uploads/6/samuel-butler-quotes-94559-every-mans-work-whether-it-be.png)
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
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