"Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else."
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"Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd."
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"I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing."
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"This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that."
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"The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same."
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"Sed nescio quo modo nihil tam absurde dici potest quod non dicatur ab aliquo philosphorum. (There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.)"
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"What the object of senile avarice may be I cannot conceive. For can there be anything more absurd than to seek more journey money, the less there remains of the journey?"
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"Nothing is too absurd to be said by some of the philosophers."
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"Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value."
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"It's absurd to warme one in his armour."
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"We have to be a little cautious about not trying to kill a gnat with an atom bomb. The performances are so utterly absurd regarding the "post-truth" moment that the proper response might best be ridicule."
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"The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities."
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"A madman's ravings are absurd in relation to the situation in which he finds himself, but not in relation to his madness."
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"If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd."
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"This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash."
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