The more intelligent one is the less one suspects an absurdity.
 Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes (1911). copy citation

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Author Joseph Conrad
Source Under Western Eyes
Topic absurdity
Date 1911
Language English
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“But no! I am wrong! I can’t afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications. How is one to guard against it? It puts to rout one’s intelligence. The more intelligent one is the less one suspects an absurdity.” A wave of wrath choked his thoughts for a moment. It even made his body leaning over the parapet quiver; then he resumed his silent thinking, like a secret dialogue with himself. And even in that privacy, his thought had some reservations of which he was vaguely conscious.” source