"Life may be not only meaningless but absurd."

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Source : Thomas Nagel (1987). “What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy”, p.82, Oxford University Press

Thomas Nagel

#May Quotes #Absurd Quotes #Meaningless Quotes

“I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.”

Source : The OK! Magazine Interview, okmagazine.com. April 6, 2011.
“When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?”
“They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays”
“All birds during the pairing season become more or less sentimental, and murmur soft nothings in a tone very unlike the grinding-organ repetition and loudness of their habitual song. The crow is very comical as a lover; and to hear him trying to soften his croak to the proper Saint-Preux standard has something the effect of a Mississippi boatman quoting Tennyson.”
“But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it. A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.”
“My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.”
“From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along.”

Source : "Can Video Games Alter Society.. in a Good Way?" by Tom Chatfield, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.
“It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.”

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