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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
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Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
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For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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I don't care how paranoid and irrational this makes me sound, but I know for a fact that the people of Paris want me dead.
Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe -
I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.
To Save A Life : Stories of Holocaust Rescue (2000) -
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
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It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Forbes (1993) v. 151, iss. 4, (p. 236) -
Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.
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The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the ''creative'' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
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The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
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Yes, having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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