The best mannered people make the most absurd lovers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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.
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
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