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He’d been absurdly proud of it
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‘But that’s absurd …’
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I stare at the water remaining in the glass I am holding … but that is ridiculous … absurd … it would mean that Dan would have to be psychotic or something … wouldn’t it?
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‘Don’t start on that!’ he roared … then, realising the absurdity of the situation, starts laughing ‘Oh, Mum! This is ridiculous!’
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‘Stephen, don’t be absurd! I couldn’t possibly move into your house
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What an absurd episode!
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‘But that is absurd
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It was absurd
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It was absurd, and even as I thought this, I found myself cramming the last piece of bread into my mouth as I grinned underneath my hood
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’ I said rather damply, it is absurd how much this has touched me
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The absurdity of our meeting struck me then
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Clutching it, she watched as a pale and patently edgy JJ and an absurdly protective Angie clambered into the kaht, stowing their bags safely under the seat; she watched until they disappeared
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Already there was a fair bit of activity in the streets – people wandering around in what she could only assume was special holiday attire for men of brightly coloured shorts and tops, some women in absurdly brief skirts, others in long muslin affairs that wouldn’t look out of place on Errd, most of them carrying bags of towels and dragging small noisy children laden with buckets and spades
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laughed again at the absurdity
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Everybody laughed at the absurdity
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Joris throws more and more absurd imprecations at his friend’s back, making me giggle even more - the only suggestion that Berndt can hear any of this being the occasional shaking of his shoulders as he fails to suppress his laughter at the ridiculous things being said
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Hauling my mantel back over my shoulders, I watch as he folds the tent and reduces it to an absurdly small package which he stows in a bag on Adamant’s back
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We eye each other like a couple of territorial felines but then my sense of the absurd hits me and I burst out laughing, taking him with me
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All my confident poise deserts me and I feel an absurd urge to burst into tears – shit! Some of this must have shown in my face, for the next thing I know is that Karen is reaching across the table
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I have to smile at the absurdity of comment, as he intended I should, and start nibbling one of the sandwiches
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We stand and calmly talk about office work generally, while a little voice in the back of my head has screaming hysterics at the absurdity of the whole situation
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Sons have this absurd idea that their mothers are somehow incapable of looking after themselves even if the evidence all points to the contrary
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This is absurd - that’s you giggling, Sally! And you were worried about the effect alcohol would have!
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Honestly, Sarah, you are getting maudlin! How absurd can you get?
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can we have gone from so absurdly happy and almost settled to … to this, in a blink of an eye? But that's the crux of it, isn't it, it was absurd
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' I replied, the absurdity of the situation beginning to make itself felt somewhere in the vicinity of my stomach
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‘That’s absurd, Dave! As if my mother could dislike anything in trousers!’
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He appeared oblivious to the absurdity of out of placeness
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Briefly he considered passing something on to Chas’s family, and dismissed it as an absurd idea
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The roars of laughter from the older men at his absurdly conflicted expressions rang out suddenly over the lake and echoed through the woods
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‘As you no doubt realised, the media have heard about the events at the hostel – I had to deal with them first before the rumours got too absurd
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“Oh come on,” she said, wondering that he could pursue this masquerade so deeply into the absurd
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He’d gone on to suggest that, if it was okay with me (and he’d looked absurdly anxious at that point) we could throw overnight stuff into his van and just drive off somewhere
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You see, there’s no reason to be so absurdly pleased that you can remember it! He doesn’t think it in any way remarkable
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She was almost pleading with me not to think badly of her, absurd under the circumstances
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Over Abi’s head, I beam at my son, absurdly proud, the rush of emotion causing tears to start in my eyes
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'That's absurd,' said Corrente at last
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‘That’s absurd – they’re your woods, aren’t they?’
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‘This is absurd! My client has never contested the
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Nothing can be more absurd, however, than to imagine that men in general should work less when they work for themselves, than when they work for other people
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It seems absurd at
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Their absurd presumption
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workmen could easily change trades with one another, if those absurd laws did not hinder
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This desire cannot be fulfilled and through failure he grows ever desperate, eventually falling prey to the most absurd forms of hope
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The cultivation of tobacco has, upon this account, been most absurdly prohibited through the greater part of Europe, which necessarily gives a sort of monopoly to the countries where it is allowed ; and as Virginia and Maryland produce the greatest quantity of it, they share largely, though with some competitors, in the advantage of this monopoly
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‘Then you have no proof! The whole idea is absurd
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It would be absurd, however, to infer from thence, that there are commonly in the market three score lambs for one ox ; and it would be just as absurd to infer, because an ounce of gold will commonly purchase from fourteen or fifteen ounces of silver, that there are commonly in the market only fourteen or fifteen ounces of silver for one ounce of gold
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not proposed really seems absurd
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To widen the market may frequently be agreeable enough to the interest of the public ; but to narrow the competition must always be against it, and can only serve to enable the dealers, by raising their profits above what they naturally would be, to levy, for their own benefit, an absurd tax upon the rest of their fellow-citizens
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“But that’s absurd!” objected Aetes
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I could never make mine the opinions expressed by many philosophers that human life is an absurdity void of any real intended meaning
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visited the loo an absurd number of times
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Surprised by the absurdity of the fact, I
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Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor
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Among all the absurd speculations that have been propagated concerning the balance of trade, it has never been pretended that either the country loses by its commerce with the town, or the town by that with the country which maintains it
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But in the present state of Europe, when small as well as great estates derive their security from the laws of their country, nothing can be more completely absurd
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They are founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all that it possesses ; but that the property of the present generation should be restrained and regulated according to the fancy of those who died, perhaps five hundred years ago
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The ancient policy of Europe was, over and above all this, unfavourable to the improvement and cultivation of land, whether carried on by the proprietor or by the farmer ; first, by the general prohibition of the exportation of corn, without a special licence, which seems to have been a very universal regulation ; and, secondly, by the restraints which were laid upon the inland commerce, not only of corn, but of almost every other part of the produce of the farm, by the absurd laws against engrossers, regraters, and forestallers, and by the privileges of fairs and markets
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But it readily occurs, that the number of such utensils is in every country necessarily limited by the use which there is for them ; that it would be absurd to have more pots and pans than were necessary for cooking the victuals usually consumed there; and that, if the quantity of victuals were to increase, the number of pots and pans would readily increase along with it ; a part of the increased quantity of victuals being employed in purchasing them, or in maintaining an additional number of workmen whose business it was to make them
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unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families, by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils
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Money, in common language, as I have already observed, frequently signifies wealth ; and this ambiguity of expression has rendered this popular notion so familiar to us, that even they who are convinced of its absurdity, are very apt to forget their own principles, and, in the course of their reasonings, to take it for granted as a certain and undeniable truth
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Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines, merely to encourage the making of claret and Burgundy in Scotland ? But if there would be a manifest absurdity in turning towards any employment thirty times more of the capital and industry of the country than would be necessary to purchase from foreign countries an equal quantity of the commodities wanted, there must be an absurdity, though not altogether so glaring, yet exactly of the same kind, in turning towards any such employment a thirtieth, or even a three hundredth part more of either
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Holland is the country in Europe in which they abound most, and which, from peculiar circumstances, continues to prosper, not by means of them, as has been most absurdly supposed, but in spite of them
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To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it
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Nothing, however, can be more absurd than this whole doctrine of the balance of trade, upon which, not only these restraints, but almost all the other regulations of commerce, are founded
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The bounty upon the exportation of corn necessarily operates exactly in the same way as this absurd policy of Spain and Portugal
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In his essay, The Myth of Sisyphus,[73] Albert Camus tries to explain how we can live in what he describes as an “absurd” world, and still be happy
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A seemingly meaningless world confronted by humans who want meaning creates the absurd
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In other words, the absurd arises from the clash between the human desire for meaning, reason, order, and clarity, and a world that appears to us to be unreasonable and irrational
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We must all somehow confront this absurdity
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His choice was a life lived for itself, where a person acknowledges the absurdity of the world without flinching, and then lives life to the fullest
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His message seems to be that we too should face this absurdity head-on
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The Absurd but Happy Life of Sisyphus
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The hero of the Camus essay, perhaps the prototypically absurd person, is Sisyphus
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Sisyphus remaining happy in spite of a terrible situation is the essence of absurdity
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However, in an irrational world, doing the unreasonable thing is a way to resolve the absurdity
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Embracing the absurdity of an objectively miserable situation is a way to be happy
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I think that Camus is telling us that the absurd person is fully aware of the irrationality of existence, embraces it, and exploits that irrationality to find happiness where there should be none
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Making its home in the material world, your mind demands the rationality and reason that set up the dilemma of the absurd
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I believe that Camus would have you be absurd and irrational
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Camus does not tell us how to embrace the absurd and find happiness
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As you come to know the joy available in the practices described in this book, the anxiety of the absurd goes away
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This statute, however, authorises in some measure two very absurd popular prejudices
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The freedom of the corn trade is almost everywhere more or less restrained, and in many countries is confined by such absurd regulations, as frequently aggravate the unavoidable misfortune of a dearth into the dreadful calamity of a famine
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That security which the laws in Great Britain give to every man, that he shall enjoy the fruits of his own labour, is alone sufficient to make any country flourish, notwithstanding these and twenty other absurd regulations of commerce ; and this security was perfected by the Revolution, much about the same time that the bounty was established
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Industry is there neither free nor secure; and the civil and ecclesiastical governments of both Spain and Portugal are such as would alone be sufficient to perpetuate their present state of poverty, even though their regulations of commerce were as wise as the greatest part of them are absurd and foolish
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The same passion which has suggested to so many people the absurd idea of the philosopher's stone, has suggested to others the equally absurd one of immense rich mines of gold and silver
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It has occasionally been the policy of France ; and of late, since 1755, after it had been abandoned by all other nations on account of its absurdity, it has become the policy of Portugal, with regard at least to two of the principal provinces of Brazil, Pernambucco, and Marannon
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Edna began to feel slightly absurd standing there in front of the kids without clothing
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It is indeed absurd to slap our right cheek to spite the one on the left!
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It is to expel those foreign capitals from a trade which their own grows every day more and more insufficient for carrying on, that the Spaniards and Portuguese endeavour every day to straiten more and more the galling bands of their absurd monopoly
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All sorts of stories were written - some were sad, romantic, funny, inspiring, violent while others were bordering absurdity
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When it came to the absurd stories, he literally scratched his head
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consider as their principal business, and by a strange absurdity, regard the character of the sovereign as but an appendix to that of the merchant ; as something which ought to be made subservient to it, or by means of which they may be enabled to buy cheaper in India, and thereby to sell with a better profit in Europe
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’ It sounded absurd now, in this situation
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But the cruellest of our revenue laws, I will venture to affirm, are mild and gentle, in comparison to some of those which the clamour of our merchants and manufacturers has extorted from the legisiature, for the support of their own absurd and oppressive monopolies
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The maxim is so perfectly self-evident, that it would be absurd to attempt to prove it
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Of course, it was absurd to believe they could actually have saved Emelda from a fatal accident
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perpetual monopoly, all the other subjects of the state are taxed very absurdly in two different ways : first, by the high price of goods, which, in the case of a free trade, they could buy much cheaper ; and, secondly, by their total exclusion from a branch of business which it might be both convenient and profitable for many of them to carry on
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The slightest degree of knowledge and application will enable him to do this, without exposing himself to contempt or derision, by saying any thing that is really foolish, absurd, or ridiculous