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“Well, I never heard it before . . . but it sounds uncommon nonsense.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make any sense at all.” Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
“Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies, do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Because you make so little impression, you see. You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move...” William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
“Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless.” Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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