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“As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.”

Has Beens Universe Fine Concerned Connected Yards Wire Junk Bargains Dynamite Bouquets

Book:The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel

Source: The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel

“There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned.”

Littles Ends Done Seems Universe Planets Concerned Importance Mortals Minors Wickedness Solar System

Book:My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor

Source: My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor

“The absurdist is concerned with the search for meaning in the Universe. He believes this search to be meaningless--hence the disintegration of plot, character, and language in absurdist drama. Order is a falsehood that we, God, those who came before us, have imposed on a random universe. However, the absurdist is confronted with a curious paradox: though he believes the Universe to be meaningless, he cannot abandon the search for meaning--or he will die.”

Believe Character Order Dies Universe Language Drama Concerned Curious Plot Abandon Paradox Meaningless Falsehood Search For Meaning Disintegration Those Who Came Before Us

Author:Walter Wykes

“I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.”

Trying Children Christian Suffering Dies Universe Evil Struggle Share Atheism Concerned Positive Atheism Your Presence Revulsion

Author:Albert Camus

“The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. I mean the idea that such complexity can arise not only out of such simplicity, but probably absolutely out of nothing, is the most fabulous extraordinary idea. And once you get some kind of inkling of how that might have happened ' it's just wonderful. And . . . the opportunity to spend 70 or 80 years of your life in such a universe is time well spent as far as I am concerned.”

“I believe in the supreme excellence of righteousness; I believe that the law of righteousness will triumph in the universe over all evil; I believe that in the attempt to fulfil the law of righteousness, however imperfect it must remain, are to be found the inspiration, the consolation, and the sanctification of human existence. We live in order to finish an, as yet, unfinished universe, unfinished so far as the human, that is, the highest part of it, is concerned. We live in order to develop the superior qualities of man which are, as yet, for the most part latent.”

“We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.”

Mean Ends Enough Universe Pay Attention Achieve Particular Concerned Determine Contrary Pay Attention Justify Good Enough Anxious Psycho

Book:Complete Essays: 1939-1956

Source: Complete Essays: 1939-1956

“It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.”

Trying Looks Doe Hard Universe Alive Concerned Hungry Frightened Motivated Identical Staying Alive Albatross

Author:Carl Safina

“You see, for me a painting is a dramatic action in the course of which the reality finds itself split apart. For me, that dramatic action takes precedence over all other considerations. The pure plastic act is only secondary as far as I'm concerned. What counts is the drama of that plastic art, the moment at which the universe comes out of itself and meets its own destruction.”

Art Moments Reality Action Universe Courses Painting Drama Pure Concerned Destruction Dramatic Consideration Plastic Splits Precedence

Author:Francoise Gilot