"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."

Absurdity, Infinite, Living

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"Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity."

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"Flowers are evil, because they live just to die for the love of other people. You don't believe me? Try it for yourself and see if you'll be good afterwards. Undeath is a way of life, for some things. That doesn't make it good or anything. Especially anything. Nothing makes anything anything. Because nothing is a serious matter, and anything just is."

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Alan Moore, British Writer

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"No people find each other more absurd than lovers."

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"Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!"

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"What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?"

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"Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks."

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"Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are."

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"Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?"

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"And do you accept the idea that there is no explanation?"

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