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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music. Honore de Balzac | top
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I became intrigued with colour theory. The absurd pronouncements of the Colour Institute, a group that decides what colours are hot each year or season, amused me. John Barton | top
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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down. George Byron | top
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. Albert Camus | top
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Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts. John Chrysostom | top
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There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it. Marcus Tullius Cicero | top
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My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd. Arthur Holly Compton | top
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The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. Tom Courtenay | top
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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. Anne Frank | top
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Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing. Elizabeth Goudge | top
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Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity. Vartan Gregorian | top
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The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. David Lynch | top
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Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim. Alice Foote MacDougall | top
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As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life. Sophie Marceau | top
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I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. Thom Mayne | top
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I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. Arthur Miller | top
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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. Agnes Repplier | top
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And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd. Michael Scheuer | top
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I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas. Patrick Stewart | top
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It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd. Randall Terry | top
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The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses. Stanley Tucci | top
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It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene. Kathleen Turner | top
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As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. Voltaire | top
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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire | top
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I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away. Robert Wyatt | top