"If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find……" — Harry Mulisch

"If you find life absurd, shouldn’t you find death precisely meaningful?"

— Harry Mulisch

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13 Quotes by Harry Mulisch

Harry Mulisch has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough…
All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?
A man who has never been hungry may possess a more refined palate, but he has no idea what it…
Besides, whoever keeps the future in front of him and the past at his back is doing something else that's…
In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of…
I'm afraid love is just a word.
But nothing exists in the future; it is empty; one might die at any minute.
Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.
All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them…
Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that…
I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it…
That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

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More Absurd Quotes

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to… — Honore de Balzac
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience… — Annie Besant
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our… — Bono
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of… — Samuel Butler
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help… — David Byrne
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out… — Lord Byron
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them… — Albert Camus
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes

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