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«I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world.»
«It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.»
Author: Honore de Balzac
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
absurd, one-woman, One Piece, piece of music, several, The Violin, violinist, violins
«My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and I might add infinitely absurd»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(Orator, Statesman)
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Christianity
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absurd, ADD, cruel, infinitely, objection, selfish
«Life is absurd»
«I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«Mountains will be in labour, and the birth will be an absurd little mouse.»
«It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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absurd, and or, are, bad, charmed, charming, divide, divided up, either, good, good and, good for you, How to be Good, into, in a bad way, people, peopled, tedious
«It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.»
«I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming pe»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
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