Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

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About Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

I can resist anything but temptation.

The needs of society determine its ethics.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

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Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

—Bill Shankly

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Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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A joke's a very serious thing.

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There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

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