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Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
Robert Green IngersollRead
There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life, and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence a meaning.
Simone De BeauvoirRead
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.
Angela CarterRead
why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.
George SantayanaRead
Yes, I am here. And you are lucky to be here too after all the absurd things you've done since you left home.
J. R. R. TolkienRead
Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.
Steven WrightRead
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
Albert CamusRead
At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It’s not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.
Stephen KingRead

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