Who said “Absurdity. A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.”?

“In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.”

“Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.”

“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”

“The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.”

“People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.”

“A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”

“Saint, n. A dead sinner, revised and edited.”

“Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.”

“A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”

“The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”

“Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen.”