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Quote by Archibald MacLeish
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived

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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There are those, I know, who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream. – Archibald MacLeish

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Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a mans life if he has the weight and cares about the words. – Archibald MacLeish

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

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

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