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• As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Yesterday, Novelists

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• Why can't you like me?" he said, his voice breaking. His scent steamed then, hot and heady with a welter of contradictions: apples and fire and electric roil of those cold, black shadows. "Why can't you like me just a little?" She would never know how she might have answered, because he never gave her the chance. Instead, he kissed her.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Fire, Voice, Apples

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• I try to get closer to reality, to get close to the contradictions. The cinema world can be a real world rather than a dream world.

  Michael Haneke

  Dream, Real, Trying

  "Michael Haneke: I try to get closer to reality, close to the contradictions". Interview with Larushka Ivan-Zadeh, metro.co.uk. November 15, 2012.

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• Love is a contradiction.

  Cassandra Clare

  Love Is, Jace Lightwood, Jace Herondale

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1535, Simon and Schuster

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• We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, True Life, Life Is

  Thomas Merton (2008). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.35, Sounds True

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• Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How dare a bunch of goondas shrink the soaring majesty of the Vedas and the Upanishads to the petty bigotry of their brand of identity politics?

  Shashi Tharoor

  Identity Politics, Vedas, Fundamentals

  Shashi Tharoor (2007). “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-century Power”, p.75, Penguin Books India

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• Well, it kind of hurts when the kind of words you write And kind of turn themselves into knives And don't mind my nerve you can call it fiction 'Cause I like being submerged in your contradictions, dear 'Cause here we are, here we are Although you were biased, I love your advice Your comebacks they're quick and probably Have to do with your insecurities There's no shame in being crazy depending on how you take these Words they're paraphrasing this relationship we're staging And it's a beautiful mess, yes, it is It's like we're picking up trash in dresses

  Jason Mraz

  Beautiful, Hurt, Crazy

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• We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

  Joshua Ferris

  Running, Long, Found

  Joshua Ferris (2007). “Then We Came to the End: A Novel”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places.

  Jay-Z

  Real, Rap, Angel

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• I am a mass of contradictions.

  Maureen Johnson

  Mass

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• Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

  Ayn Rand

  Moving, Emotional, Mind

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.964, Penguin

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• I learned from him that often contradiction is the clearest way to truth

  Patti Smith

  Way, Morality

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.200, A&C Black

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• Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Mass, Courses

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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

  Space, Culture, Advocating

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• Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

  Colin Quinn

  Crazy, Humanity, Who We Are

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• Once you look past the hype, actors are nothing more than fugitives from reality who specialize in contradiction: we are both children and hardened adults—wide-eyed pupils and jaded working stiffs.

  Bruce Campbell

  Children, Past, Reality

  Bruce Campbell (2015). “If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor”, p.317, Macmillan

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• [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Joy

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

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• The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Wisest Man, Would Be

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.225, Vintage

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• In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

  Matt Dillon

  Holes, Knows, Happenings

  "New Again: Matt Dillon". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan and Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2013.

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• You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.

  Alison Croggon

  Queens, Men, Remembrance

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• Smack in the centre of contradiction is the place to be.

  Bono

  Centre, Smack

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• I am a man of contradictions, I suppose.

  Rod Stewart

  Men

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• A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

  David Sheff

  Black And White, World, Gray

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.

  Khalil Gibran

  Lying, Self, Matter

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Biographies, Human Life, Humans

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