"When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot."

Paradox, Memory, Forgetting, Consciousness

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"When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot."

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"I agree. I don't understand how a guy everyone is terrified of makes me feel safe. I don't understand how a guy who stayed behind to protect me when he didn't know me has been shot. I don't understand how a guy who carried me out of an alley full of shattered glass is the enemy everyone is warning me about."

Katie McGarry, American Author

Paradox, Safety, Trust, Heroism

"And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade."

Lord Byron, British Poet

Paradox, Truth, Lies, Deception, Appearance

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"

Steven Wright, American Comedian

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"Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas' - 'Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses'."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Paradox, Beauty, Pain, Contrast, Hope

"Love: the sickest of Irony's sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

Paradox, Love, Irony, Logic, Chaos

"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"This has always bothered me. If "Change" is the only constant how can we have absolutes?"

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

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"Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents."

Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher

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"I'm dead, but I can't stop living."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Paradox, Death, Life, Existence

"In love there are two evils: war and peace."

Horace, Roman Poet

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Emotion

"She existed in her friends, there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them."

Identity

"Parents were the only ones obligated to love you from the rest of the world you had to earn it."

Family

"Carmen knew a worse friend would have made her feel better."

Friendship

"Lena realized that a fundamental layer of their happiness depended on the four of them being close to one another. Their lives were independent and full. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives, but it seemed to give meaning to all the others."

Friendship

"The path of your life can change in an instant."

Change

"Together or apart, no matter how far apart, we live in one another. We go on together."

Unity

"Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still."

Love

"It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn't come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren't ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal."

Emotion

"Desire was just the dumbest thing. You wanted what you wanted until it was yours. Then you didn't want it anymore. You took what you had for granted until it was no longer yours. This, it seemed to her, was one of the crueller paradoxes of human nature."

Desire