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    1. ‘But that’s absurd …’


    2. 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?


    3. ‘Stephen, don’t be absurd! I couldn’t possibly move into your house


    4. What an absurd episode!


    5. ‘But that is absurd


    6. It was absurd


    7. 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


    8. ’ I said rather damply, it is absurd how much this has touched me


    9. 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


    10. 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

    11. 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


    12. Sons have this absurd idea that their mothers are somehow incapable of looking after themselves even if the evidence all points to the contrary


    13. This is absurd - that’s you giggling, Sally! And you were worried about the effect alcohol would have!


    14. Honestly, Sarah, you are getting maudlin! How absurd can you get?


    15. 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


    16. ‘That’s absurd, Dave! As if my mother could dislike anything in trousers!’


    17. Briefly he considered passing something on to Chas’s family, and dismissed it as an absurd idea


    18. ‘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


    19. “Oh come on,” she said, wondering that he could pursue this masquerade so deeply into the absurd


    20. She was almost pleading with me not to think badly of her, absurd under the circumstances

    21. ‘That’s absurd – they’re your woods, aren’t they?’


    22. ‘This is absurd! My client has never contested the


    23. 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


    24. It seems absurd at


    25. Their absurd presumption


    26. workmen could easily change trades with one another, if those absurd laws did not hinder


    27. This desire cannot be fulfilled and through failure he grows ever desperate, eventually falling prey to the most absurd forms of hope


    28. ‘Then you have no proof! The whole idea is absurd


    29. 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


    30. not proposed really seems absurd

    31. 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


    32. “But that’s absurd!” objected Aetes


    33. visited the loo an absurd number of times


    34. 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


    35. 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


    36. 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


    37. 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


    38. 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


    39. 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


    40. 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

    41. 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


    42. 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


    43. The bounty upon the exportation of corn necessarily operates exactly in the same way as this absurd policy of Spain and Portugal


    44. A seemingly meaningless world confronted by humans who want meaning creates the absurd


    45. 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


    46. The Absurd but Happy Life of Sisyphus


    47. The hero of the Camus essay, perhaps the prototypically absurd person, is Sisyphus


    48. 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


    49. Making its home in the material world, your mind demands the rationality and reason that set up the dilemma of the absurd


    50. I believe that Camus would have you be absurd and irrational














































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