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• Albert Camusgran voz humanista y existencialista, señaló que comprometerse con una causa justa sin esperanza de éxito es absurdo. Pero también señaló que no comprometerse con una causa justa es igualmente absurdo. Pero sólo una opción ofrece la posibilidad de la dignidad. Y la dignidad importa. La dignidad importa.

  David Simon

  Voz, Elecciones, Importancia

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• I have advocated postal reform for many years. The parliament said it was an absurd argument. The people have said it was the right thing.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Years, People, Reform

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• La privatización del sistema postal se ha calificado durante mucho tiempo de absurda, pero yo siempre he dicho que es lo lógico.

  Junichiro Koizumi

  Long, Logical, Privatization

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• Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Powerful, Voice, Miracle

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• La Primera Enmienda parece más un sueño que una ley, y ninguna otra nación, que yo sepa, ha estado tan loca como para incluir semejante sueño entre sus documentos legales fundamentales. La defiendo porque ha tenido tanto éxito durante dos siglos a la hora de preservar nuestra libertad y aumentar nuestra vitalidad, sabiendo que todos los argumentos en su apoyo sonarán seguramente absurdos.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Sueño, Locura, Éxito

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• Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

  Peter Greenaway

  Games, Sometimes, Crosses

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• If you want me to explain the picture, if you put it in reality, then the mystery goes away. The situation just catches you and you think it is absurd or mysterious and you just take the picture. You dont want to see the bare reality of what happened. I took the picture as the picture, not as the realistic story of what happened.

  Eva Fuka

  Reality, Thinking, Want

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• El obrero de hoy trabaja todos los días de su vida en las mismas tareas, y este destino no es menos absurdo. Pero sólo es trágico en los raros momentos en que se vuelve consciente.

  Albert Camus

  Destino, Tareas, Momentos Raros

  Albert Camus (2012). "El mito de Sísifo: And Other Essays", p.121, Vintage

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• Debemos hacer cosas extraordinarias. Tenemos que hacerlo. Sería absurdo no hacerlo.

  Dave Eggers

  Would Be, Extraordinary Things, Extraordinary

  "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". Book by Dave Eggers, 2000.

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• Mis horas más felices son aquellas en las que nada pienso, nada quiero, cuando ni siquiera sueño, sino que me pierdo en un espurio letargo vegetal, musgo que crece en la superficie de la vida. Sin rastro de amargura saboreo mi absurda conciencia de ser nada, mero anticipo de la muerte y la extinción.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sueño, Pensamiento, Verduras

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). "El libro de la inquietud", p.50, Profile Books

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• I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.

  Federico el Grande

  Christian, Thinking, People

  Letter 37 to Voltaire on June 1738. "Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great", translated by Richard Aldington, 1927.

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• It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday

  Jamie O'Neill

  Tuesday, Dies

  Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

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• The masses will not vote for their own upliftment in a higher order of society. This has to be accomplished without their support and request, despite them and indeed against them. It is absurd to pivot your whole project, as does a conventional party, on the submission of change to the decision of those who so need to be changed. You might as well make the case for law and order conditional on the approval of the criminals.

  Colin Jordan

  Party, Order, Law

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• We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, power without consequence. The stubborn iteration that is present without being felt. Nothing the spirit can marry. Merely phenomenon and its physics. An endless, endless of going on. No habitat where the brain can recognize itself. No pertinence for the heart. Helpless duplication.

  Jack Gilbert

  Heart, Brain, Habitat

  Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.293, Knopf

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• Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt.

  Charles Pratt, 1er Conde de Camden

  Answers, Revolution, Contempt

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• Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

  Haruki Murakami

  Events, Might, Existentialism

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84:”, p.272, Random House

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• The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Confused, Real, Men

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.120, Open Road Media

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• Puesto que el hombre, fragmento del universo, se rige por las mismas leyes que presiden los cielos, no es en absoluto absurdo buscar allí arriba los temas de nuestra vida, esas frígidas simpatías que participan tanto de nuestros logros como de nuestros desatinos.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Media, Hombres, Ley

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• The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than a belief in magic, angels, and divine intervention.

  Chris Hedges

  Atheist, Angel, Perfect

  Chris Hedges (2009). “When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can be discriminated within the proper compass of the understanding: it is not identical with the improbable, the unexpected, the unforeseen.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Understanding, Facts, Unexpected

  Fear and Trembling "Problemata: Preliminary Expectoration" (1843)

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• La paz es absurda: El fascismo no cree en ella.

  Benito Mussolini

  War, Believe, Doe

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• Si Dios creó el universo, hubo un momento en que comenzó a crear. Detrás de ese comienzo debe haber habido una eternidad. ¿En esa eternidad qué estaba haciendo este Dios? Ciertamente no pensaba. No había nada que pensar. No recordaba. Nada había sucedido. ¿Qué hacía? ¿Puedes imaginar algo más absurdo que una inteligencia infinita en una nada infinita desperdiciando una eternidad?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Thinking, Infinite Intelligence, Remember

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.324, Library of Alexandria

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• In this world that God (or Mother Nature) created, it is always hazard and novelty-hazard and novelty-which assert themselves, thereby rendering notions of fixity absurd. Incongruously enough, however, when we allow ourselves to fully accept uncertainty, to embrace and cultivate it even, then we actually can begin to feel within ourselves the presence of an Absolute. The person who cannot welcome ambiguity cannot welcome God.

  Tom Robbins

  Mother, Hazards, World

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• Un monomaníaco es un enfermo cuya mentalidad es perfectamente sana en todos los aspectos menos en uno; tiene un único defecto, claramente localizado. A veces, por ejemplo, tiene un deseo irrazonable y absurdo de beber o robar o usar un lenguaje abusivo; pero todos sus demás actos y todos sus demás pensamientos son estrictamente correctos.

  Emile Durkheim

  Sick, Healthy, Desire

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Ridicule, the weapon of all others most feared by enthusiasts of every description, and which from its predominance over such minds, often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.

  Walter Scott

  Fear, Mind, Noble

  Walter Scott (2015). “The Complete Novels of Sir Walter Scott: Waverly, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe, The Pirate, Old Mortality, The Guy Mannering, The Antiquary, The Heart of Midlothian and many more (Illustrated): The Betrothed, The Talisman, Black Dwarf, The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth, Peveril of the Peak, A Legend of Montrose, The Fortunes of Nigel, Tales from Benedictine Sources…”, p.3945, e-artnow

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