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Quote by Vaclav Havel
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the low

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. – Vaclav Havel

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the more energetically meaning is sought. – Vaclav Havel

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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions. – Vaclav Havel

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People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. – Agnes Repplier

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Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with ones own opinion. – Ambrose Bierce

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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be. – Archibald MacLeish

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