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I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
Wislawa Szymborska
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He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
Baruch Spinoza
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But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)
Samuel Beckett
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Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
Phil Ochs
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When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.
T. Colin Campbell
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To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.
Denis Diderot
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I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whateverās going on.
Jon Stewart
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Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.
Criss Jami
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The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
Francis Atterbury
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There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.
Nellie Melba
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
Ambrose Bierce
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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
Mary Astell
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No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
Bernard Levin
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Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Thomas Paine
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The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
Marcel Proust
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.
Jonathan Nolan
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The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
David Lynch
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For any truth, if āoverdoneā (as Dietzgen Senior put it), if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its actual applicability, can be reduced to an absurdity, and is even bound to become an absurdity under these conditions.
Vladimir Lenin
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There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
Frank McCourt
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In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
Nicolas Chamfort
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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
Jonathan Edwards
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And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
Ralph Ellison
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The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.
George Tyrrell
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The phrase āpopular scienceā has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
Maria Mitchell
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Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
Bill Vaughan
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The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
George Sand
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Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
Tanya Huff
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There's a sort of absurdity to Australia and the so-called New World nations. I sensed it all the time growing up in Western Australia, which is really remote.
Shaun Tan
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He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.
Voltaire
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Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.
Mac Barnett
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Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.
Francis Bacon
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A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable.
Mason Cooley
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
Natasha Lyonne
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The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
George Orwell