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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Oscar Wilde
Life
Talk
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Oscar Wilde
Art
Life
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Oscar Wilde
Friendship
Beginning
Ending
Laughter
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde
Life
Love
Heart
Flowers
Garden
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde
Help
Will
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Oscar Wilde
Art
Perfection
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
Act
Man
Reason
Temper
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde
Growth
Ambition
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Enemies
Nothing
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
Oscar Wilde
Women
Man
Mothers
Tragedy
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
Poetry
Feeling
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
Art
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Oscar Wilde
Dying
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde
Art
Work
Result
Temperament
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde
Arguments