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"Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion."

Bierce, Ambrose · Absurdity · 6 fans >>
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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."

Byron, Lord · Absurdity · 7 fans >>
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"At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."

Camus, Albert · Absurdity · 5 fans >>
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. · Absurdity · 5 fans >>
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"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."

Havel, Vaclav · Absurdity · 2 fans >>
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"The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only."

Hobbes, Thomas · Absurdity · 2 fans >>
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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."

Macleish, Archibald · Absurdity · 3 fans >>
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"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."

Nietzsche, Friedrich · Absurdity · 4 fans >>
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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

Nietzsche, Friedrich · Absurdity · 7 fans >>
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"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."

Repplier, Agnes · Absurdity · 1 fans >>
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."

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