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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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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It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self. – Agnes Repplier

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Leisure
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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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Absurdity
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The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. – Thomas Hobbes

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Absurdity

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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Absurdity

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

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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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