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— Jane Hirshfield"The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff."
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Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.
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