Common sense isn't.
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| I can perform absurd work, choose the creative attitude rather than another. But an absurd attitude, if it is to remain so, must remain aware of its gratuitousness. So it is with the work of art. If the commandments of the absurd are not respected, if the work does not illustrate divorce and revolt, if it sacrifices to illusions and arouses hope, it ceases to be gratuitous. I can no longer detach myself from it. My life may find a meaning in it, but that is trifling. It ceases to be that exercise in detachment and passion which crowns the splendor and futility of a man's life. |
| ~ The Myth of Sisyphus, Absurd Creation, Philosophy and Fiction, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960) ~ |
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| So he took a large mouthful, and he gave a large crunch. "_Ow!_" said Tigger. He sat down and put his paw in his mouth. "What's the matter?" asked Pooh. "_Hot!_" mumbled Tigger. |
| ~ -- Tigger tries thistles _The House at Pooh Corner_, p. 27 ~ |
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| When he put it like this, you saw how it was, and you aimed very carefully at the balloon, and fired. "_Ow_!" said Pooh. "Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly _miss_," said Pooh, "but you missed the _balloon_." |
| ~ -- Christopher Robin rescues Pooh _Winnie-the-Pooh_, p. 16 ~ |
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| Separation of Church and State: [I]t is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. |
| ~ (James Madison) Memorial and Remonstrance, 1785 ~ |
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| The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions. |
| ~ Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things. ~ |
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| A close mouth catches no flies. |
| ~ Cervantes, Don Quixote. Part i. Book. iii. Chap. xi. ~ |
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| A laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing. |
| ~ Herman Melville (1819–1891), U.S. author. Moby-Dick (1851), ch. 5, The Writings of Herman Melville, vol. 6, eds. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (1988). ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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