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In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity, extreme action, to push us to the limits of what our character is, and to change us as people.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.