"Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd"
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"Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be."
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"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
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"There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it."
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"pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more."
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"The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge."
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"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
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"A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural."
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"When all else fails there's always delusion."
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"I never asserted such an absurd thing as that things arise without a cause."
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"I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency."
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"The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits."
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"I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour."
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"why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together."
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"Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd."
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"Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want."
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"There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find myself amongst strangers, I should be solicitous to examine before I condemned."
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"A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it."
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"Everything is absurd."
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"The avarice of the old: it's absurd to increase one's luggage as one nears the journey's end."
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