"Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good."

Paradox, Power, Duality, Morality

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"Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good."

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"You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one."

R. A. Delmonico, American Author

Paradox, Conflict, Identity, Reflection, Violence

"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

"I am a religious person, although I am not a believer."

Philip Pullman, British Writer

Paradox, Religion, Belief, Spiritual

"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

Paradox, Cats, Humor, Science

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

Patti Smith, American Musician

Paradox, Contradiction, Truth, Wisdom

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

Paradox, Beauty, Pain, Contrast, Hope

"Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains."

John Updike, American Novelist

Paradox, Chaos, Order, Divinity, Rebellion

"What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Paradox, Sanity, Insanity, Problems, World

"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

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"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."

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"There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us."

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"An unused life is an early death."

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"Live dangerously and you live right."

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"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

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"You cannot identify an enemy without becoming one."

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

"I am a religious person, although I am not a believer."

"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?"

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

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

"Chaos is God's body. Order is the Devil's chains."

"What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!"

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

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"The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim."

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."

"The human mind will not be confined to any limits."

"Few people have the imagination for reality."

"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."

"There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us."

"An unused life is an early death."

"Live dangerously and you live right."

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."