#absurd

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Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it. We live on the future: “tomorrow,” “later on,” “when you have made your way,” “you will understand when you are old enough.” Such irrelevancies are wonderful, for, after all, it’s a matter of dying. Yet a day comes when a man notices or says that he is thirty. Thus he asserts his youth. But simultaneously he situates himself in relation to time. He takes his place in it. He admits that he stands at a certain point on a curve that he acknowledges having to travel to its end. He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy. Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, whereas everything in him ought to reject it. That revolt of the flesh is the absurd.


Albert Camus


#life

Money can't buy you friends, but you do get a better class of enemy.


Spike Milligan


#money

I can bench press steam, but not fog. I just have to wait until the fog lifts itself.



Jarod Kintz


#bench-press #fog #natural #nature #passion

I have nothing but respect for you -- and not much of that.


Groucho Marx


#gibe #insult #respect

If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician.


Jarod Kintz


#awareness #bad #fight #good #oppression

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.


George Orwell


#mystical #truth #words #mysticism

freedom is anathema to dreams nurtured in captivity.


Gary Shteyngart


#dreams

If I had four fingers growing out of my forehead, I wouldn't try to play the piano with my nose.


Jarod Kintz


#music #piano #music

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.


Agnes Repplier


#cannot #civilization #much #palpable #people

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.


Carter Burwell


#admirable #being #cinema #enjoy #fact