Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
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In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Only she who attempts the absurd can achieve the impossible.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
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 people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most part.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
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