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the Theatre of the Absurd at the Realm of Existentialism
  • People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. --Agnes Repplier

  • The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. --Friedrich Nietzsche

  • The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. --Thomas Hobbes

  • There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. --Napoleon Bonaparte

  • We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the absurd. . . . Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste? . . . Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding? --Norman Mailer

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