Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.
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.
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.
The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
Life may be not only meaningless but absurd.
In life, a lot of great ideas sound insane or absurd at first.
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.
Everything you try to do in life, of any value, people are going to be saying, 'No, no, no.' You have to have the ability to not see that or hear that.
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