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Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.
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eccentric
ridiculous
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Tom Robbins |
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... the more I learned, the more conscious did I become of the fact that I was ridiculous. So that for me my years of hard work at the university seem in the end to have existed for the sole purpose of demonstrating and proving to me, the more deeply engrossed I became in my studies, that I was an utterly absurd person.
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ridiculous
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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Don't be ridiculous, please.' The most insulting words in the world!
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ridiculous
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L.M. Montgomery |
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All through his life, he swung between the ridiculous and the sublime,
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ridiculous
sublime
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Marshall McLuhan |
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You know, in my opinion, being ridiculous is sometimes even a good thing, and better than that: we can forgive one another more quickly, and acquire humilty more quickly; after all, we can't understand everything at once, we can't begin directly from perfection!
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ridiculous
humility
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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The poems that used to entrance me in the days of Miss Violence now struck me as overdone and sickly. --the archaic language of unrequited love. I was irritated with such words, which rendered the unhappy lovers--I could now see--faintly ridiculous, like poor moping Miss Violence herself. Soft-edged, blurry, soggy, like a bun fallen into the water. Nothing you'd want to touch,
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poetry
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language
unrequited-love
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Margaret Atwood |