Quote by Agnes Repplier
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in

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

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Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage. – Agnes Repplier

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What puzzles most of us are the things which have been left in the movies rather than the things which have been taken out. – Agnes Repplier

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What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! – Agnes Repplier

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The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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