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Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

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Jean-Dominique BaubyThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; an...

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If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an i...

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When you find yourself looking ridiculous, reasoning isn't worth a damn.

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Osamu DazaiBlue Bamboo: Japanese Tales of Fantasy

Glimmer, I hear someone call her - ugh, the names the people in District 1 give their children are s...

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This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a cr...

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Though it is not a direct article of the christian system that this world that we inhabit is the who...

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It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is...

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Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disag...

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I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And ...

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I mean, art for art's sake is ridiculous. Art is for the sake of one's needs.

I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.

All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.

Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite na...

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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because ...

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