#contradict

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. ↗

— Walt Whitman

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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I'm part of the consumer culture... I'm just using the space I am given to express something that is out of the space so I'm part of the consumer system but I'm advocating stepping out. Which is a contradiction but I could be part of he consumer system and say, 'let's consume even more.' ↗

— Michel Gondry

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Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

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That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. ↗

— David Hume

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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth. ↗

— Roland Barthes

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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words. ↗

— William Congreve

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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

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