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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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In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! – Agnes Repplier

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Stress
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Agnes Repplier
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization. – Agnes Repplier

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Coffee (or Tea)
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Absurdity
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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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Absurdity

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. – Albert Camus

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Absurdity

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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Absurdity

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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Absurdity

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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire

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