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"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be." »Archibald MacLeish
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"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it." »Cicero
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"There is nothing so ridiculous absurd* but some philosopher has said it." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd." »Allan Goldfein
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"Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journey?s end, we should lay in the more provision for it?" »Cicero
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"It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them." »John Steinbeck
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." »Voltaire
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"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing." »Elizabeth Goudge
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"Doubt is not a pleasant state of mind, but certainty is absurd." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world." »Georges Duhamel
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"This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them." »Bertrand Russell
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"There is only one success ... to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." »Christopher Darlington Morley
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"What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities." »Joseph Addison
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"This is patently absurd but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities." »Bertrand Russell
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"Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check." »M. C. Escher
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"This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities." »Bertrand Russell
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." »Utterly Russell
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"The absurd is born of the confrontation between the human call and the unreasonable silence of the world." »Albert Camus
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"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?" »The Quarterly Review (England), March 1825
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"I express many absurd opinions, but I am not the first man to do it American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity." »Vartan Gregorian
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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then." »George Gordon Byron
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"It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." »Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, July 15, 1944
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"Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half." »Plato
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"Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works..." »J. R. R. Tolkien
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." »Bertrand Russell
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." »Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
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"It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style." »oscar wilde, Quoted in Ellmann
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