Absurd Quotes
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Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.
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Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
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There can be no such thing as 'fairness in taxation.' Taxation is nothing but organized theft, and the concept of a 'fair tax' is therefore every bit as absurd as that of 'fair theft.'
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I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.
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The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.
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[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.
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The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
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The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning.
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To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
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The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to.
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One is always willfully absurd.... If one does not say silly things with a purpose, then he is merely an idiot.
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I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and I understand the metaphor of that belief.
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Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.
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Humor is the sense of the Absurd which is despair refusing to take itself seriously.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
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We all get one life to live here. It's 2012, and for gay and lesbian couples who are in love, not to be able to be married is so absurd.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.
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There is no necessity in this world that requires you to have an absurd amount of money.
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...the total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.
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The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off
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The idea of trying able to explain why you do what you do is absurd.
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Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
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It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.
