Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless."
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Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"Everything in the world is gloriously meaningless."
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion"
Vladimir Nabokov
Novelist
"Words without experience are meaningless."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Beauty is meaningless until it is shared."
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"We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless."
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"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you."
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"Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless."
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"It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die."
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"All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense."
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"Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so."
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"Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too."
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"Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless."
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"It is only when we have ceased to be the followers of our followers that we comprehend how meaningless followers are."
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"Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless"
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"Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality."
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"I like to remind myself that everything is meaningless."
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"Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away."
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"Now, after so many years, I understand what the Coldness was and where it came from—this sense that everything is lost, and worthless, and meaningless."
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"Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits."
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