#absurdity

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#absurdity #apparent #because #begun #carefully

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. ↗

— Julio Cortazar

#absurdly #break #infinite #living #only

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#because #doing #i #particularly #perhaps

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#absurdity #bad #bit #comedy #everything

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#absurdity #much #poverty

It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"! (Institutio III.2.3) ↗

— Jean Calvin

#calvin #faith #humility #ignorance #knowledge

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

— Samuel Johnson

#almost #arises #cannot #conduct #imitation

A brick represents all the evil in the world. We should start a War on Bricks. And why not? It’s more tangible, yet just as nonsensical, as the War on Terror.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #evil #tangible #war

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street-corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door. So it is with absurdity. The absurd world more than others derives its nobility from that abject birth. In certain situations, replying “nothing” when asked what one is thinking about may be pretense in a man. Those who are loved are well aware of this. But if that reply is sincere, if it symbolizes that odd state of soul in which the void becomes eloquent, in which the chain of daily gestures is broken, in which the heart vainly seeks the link that will connect it again, then it is as it were the first sign of absurdity. ↗

— Albert Camus

#the-myth-of-sisyphus #love

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors... ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#imagination #literary-theories #imagination