{"quotes":[{"text":"Perhaps man was neither good nor bad, was only a machine in an insensate universe--his courage no more than a reflex to danger, like the automatic jump at the pin-prick. Perhaps there were no virtues, unless jumping at pin-pricks was a virtue, and humanity only a mechanical donkey led on by the iron carrot of love, through the pointless treadmill of reproduction.","author":"T.H. White","tags":["good-and-evil","meaninglessness","the-absurd","virtues"],"id":33659,"author_id":"T.H.+White"},{"text":"If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["absurdism","existentialism","meaning-of-life","nihilism","the-absurd"],"id":41380,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"The irrational, the human nostalgia, and the absurd that is born of their encounter - these are the three characters in the drama that must necessarily end with all the logic of which an existence is capable.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["existentialism","the-absurd"],"id":100043,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}