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" Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. "

" A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. "

" At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. "

" Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. "

" Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. "

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

" Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth. "

Timothy Radcliffe

" Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness. "

" Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. "

Oliver Goldsmith

" Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. "

Alexander Herzen

" Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. "

" I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works. "

" I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. "

" I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one by one, backpacking friends returned from the place with the standard anecdotal combo of nirvanic epiphany and toilet horror. "

" In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. "

Arthur Schopenhauer

" My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded by a wall that was more than 100 miles long - the absurdity and intensity of it really knocked me out. "

" My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. "

" No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. "

" Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. "

" Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. "

Claude Levi-Strauss

" People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. "

" Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. "

Daniel Day-Lewis

" That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor. "

" The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. "

" The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. "

" The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. "

" The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises. "

" The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. "

" The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. "

" Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. "

Nicolaus Copernicus

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