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Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
Errol Morris
Errol Morris
Errol Morris
Born: Feb 5, 1948

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Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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We are in the middle of a big swamp of ignorance that is taught by a lot of nonsense, propaganda, absurdity, amalgams. I have a hard time listening to any speech. You feel like you want to stop the TV every two seconds to rephrase them, because it's lie after lie, turning stuff upside down, and you can't follow that. That's the trap. Raoul Peck
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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 logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises. Eric Metaxas
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Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. Samuel Johnson
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The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. Lysander Spooner
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. Oliver Goldsmith
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Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. David Lynch
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