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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding. — Harold Evans

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. — James Baldwin

Are you strange like me, are you insane? Are you the wildfire, that loves pouring rain... — J. Limbu

Bells ringing with no sound
Laughter with no voice
Happiness lost without being found
Making love with no noise — T. Grassan Images of...

I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence. — Stanislaw Lem Fiasco

'..then he added, as if requiring a response to his own remark, 'Probably the greater the difference, the greater the similarity, and the greater the similarity, the greater the difference,' at that moment he did not yet know how right he was.' — Jose Saramago All the Names

Free is he who does not even know that he is free, nor that freedom exists, nor that prison exists. Free is not he who is beyond good and evil, but outside the obsessions of freedom and prison. To want to have no desires is still to have one desire: that very desire to have no desires. Free, not even free, nor even unfree, free is the one who lives in any case, the one who neither accepts nor refuses to live, the one for whom living and dying is the same. — Eugene Ionesco Fragments of a...

Lies are fascinating because they demean the paradoxes of our society

I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no pity...

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.

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What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

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