Absurd Quotes
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
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When I look back on my life nowadays, which I sometimes do, what strikes me most forcibly about it is that what seemed at the time most significant and seductive, seems now most futile and absurd. For instance, success in all of its various guises; being known and being praised; ostensible pleasures, like acquiring money or seducing women, or traveling, going to and fro in the world and up and down in it like Satan, exploring and experiencing whatever Vanity Fair has to offer. In retrospect all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called “licking the earth.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
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It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and frightening.
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Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd.
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I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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For an idea which, at first, does not seem absurd, there is no hope.
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. 'Everything is permitted' does not mean that nothing is forbidden.
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There obviously are a hell of a lot of people that love Lady Gaga. But to me, she's been the theatre of the absurd. And the more absurd it is, the bigger she got.
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What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.
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It is absurd to look for perfection.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
