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1. ‘Don’t start on that!’ he roared … then, realising the absurdity of the situation, starts laughing ‘Oh, Mum! This is ridiculous!’
2. The absurdity of our meeting struck me then
3. laughed again at the absurdity
4. Everybody laughed at the absurdity
5. 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
6. I have to smile at the absurdity of comment, as he intended I should, and start nibbling one of the sandwiches
7. 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
8. ' I replied, the absurdity of the situation beginning to make itself felt somewhere in the vicinity of my stomach
9. He appeared oblivious to the absurdity of out of placeness
10. “Oh come on,” she said, wondering that he could pursue this masquerade so deeply into the absurd
11. Surprised by the absurdity of the fact, I
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. A seemingly meaningless world confronted by humans who want meaning creates the absurd
16. 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
17. 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
18. The Absurd but Happy Life of Sisyphus
19. However, in an irrational world, doing the unreasonable thing is a way to resolve the absurdity
20. Embracing the absurdity of an objectively miserable situation is a way to be happy
21. 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
22. Making its home in the material world, your mind demands the rationality and reason that set up the dilemma of the absurd
23. Camus does not tell us how to embrace the absurd and find happiness
24. As you come to know the joy available in the practices described in this book, the anxiety of the absurd goes away
25. 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
26. When it came to the absurd stories, he literally scratched his head
27. the ageing SLK, and then as always he realised the absurdity of
28. looked skywards he realised the absurdity of his search
29. I shrugged my shoulders and lit another fag I coughed and thought these things are going to kill you but then I laughed at the absurdity of it
30. He imagined he would wake soon and realise the absurdity of it
31. He started walking forward, at first making slow awkward strides and then faster, and all the time Zolla's (imagined) voice in his head, Don't rationalise the absurd, Jimmy
32. He shuddered, struck by the absurdity of this scene
33. Without fail our Sergeant always asked on Monday mornings: “Did you f wankers miss me?” He never understood the absurdity of that question, and it seemed that only the Rooinekke and I caught the joke
34. * We have the absurdity today (all nice Human Rights orientated of course) that someone shot by the police (mostly with good reason), are treated in private hospitals at tremendous cost to the tax payer but their victims, shot by the gangsters, is treated wherever his medical aid demands
35. One of the absurdities of this type of insurance is that those who have it are often not aware of it as it is believed that an employee may conspire in his own kidnapping if he is aware of it
36. Mixed up in? No, hell no, operating the damn thing! That’s just outrageous! If you could only see the gallery in the reception area of his office lined with awards for fighting drug trafficking then you’d know the absurdity
37. As he sank into the depths of the pond that night, he shook his head, at the absurdity of the plan
38. “Hah!” said Maintenon, slapping his thigh in delight at the absurd vagaries of fate
39. The absurdity of grown adults holding imaginary cups to their mouths and eating imaginary cake would have made him choke with laughter if their physical condition wasn’t so painfully haggard
40. He didn’t know how to fly; he suddenly realised he was still alive and couldn’t stop laughing at the absurdness of it all
41. The whole thing had the element of the absurd to me
42. He let out a long sigh at the absurd idea
43. What if such a law were to be contemplated today? Which sect, cult, or congregation would be chosen? How would everyone else react? To pose such questions is to reveal the absurdity of any fear of a traditional religion being established in this country
44. Absurdity and futility have supplanted them: the absurdity and futility of life, of sentience, of reality
45. exploits the night before when others would tell him of the absurd
46. experiences to the absurdity and horror of what Rosemary
47. Can you understand the absurdity and the seriousness of this lie? That would mean that if someone was, say, fifty years old and could travel forty years into the past, he could meet himself as a child
48. Let the absurdity of that sink in
49. “Yes, recognize well the absurdity of this lie,” stressed Imya, one of the other adults
50. From time to time, their superstitions are compared with our Christian dogmas and touched upon indirectly, so that they might realize the absurdity of their primitive beliefs, and may be ashamed to know that their disgusting swamp-rituals have not escaped our notice