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Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.
– Oscar Wilde

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  2. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. – Oscar Wilde
  3. The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question. – Nikolai A Berdyaev
  4. The desire to get married is a basic and primal instinct in women. It’s followed by another basic and primal instinct: the desire to be single again. – Nora Ephron
  5. Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same. – Will Cuppy
  6. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. – Oscar Wilde
  7. Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing. – Oscar Wilde
  8. Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
  9. Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
  10. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
  11. I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. – Oscar Wilde
  12. To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life. – Oscar Wilde
  13. And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life. – Oscar Wilde
  14. People will ask you the question ‘how is life treating you?’ But my question is ‘how are you treating life?’ On that your happiness rests – Rasheed Ogunlaru
  15. I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses. – Oscar Wilde
  16. An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. – Oscar Wilde
  17. Life has always poppies in her hands. – Oscar Wilde
  18. Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worse habits. – Oscar Wilde
  19. Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known – Oscar Wilde
  20. Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose. – Oscar Wilde
  21. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. – Oscar Wilde
  22. Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . – Oscar Wilde
  23. All I want now is to look at life. – Oscar Wilde
  24. And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation. – Oscar Wilde
  25. All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to. – Oscar Wilde
  26. I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn’t write them down, I should not probably forget all about them. – Oscar Wilde
  27. You don’t seem to realise, that in married life three is company and two is none. – Oscar Wilde
  28. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life. – Oscar Wilde
  29. the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life. – Oscar Wilde
  30. You cut life to pieces with your epigrams. – Oscar Wilde
  31. The aim of life is self-development – Oscar Wilde
  32. He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him. – Oscar Wilde
  33. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. – Oscar Wilde
  34. Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
  35. Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde
  36. Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. – Oscar Wilde
  37. Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better. – Oscar Wilde
  38. My dear fellow, it isn’t easy to be anything nowadays. There’s such a lot of beastly competition about. – Oscar Wilde
  39. To realise one’s nature perfectly-”that is what each of us is here for. – Oscar Wilde
  40. You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person! – Oscar Wilde

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