"Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies."

Paradox, Truth, Lies, Light, Shadow

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"The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"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

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"I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"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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"GOD is foolishness and GOD is wisdom all at the same time."

TemitOpe Ibrahim, Nigerian Poet

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"Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice."

Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese Author

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"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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"Then I glanced at the ring on my finger.The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail, Forever and Ever. I know where I came from-but where did all you zombies come from?I felt a headache coming on, but a headache powder is one thing I do not take. I did once-and you all went away.So I crawled into bed and whistled out the light.You aren't really there at all. There isn't anybody but me-Jane-here alone in the dark.I miss you dreadfully!"

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

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"In some situations, no one has courage to challenge the reason. Since faith causes the reasoning to evaporate."

Girdhar Joshi, Indian Author

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

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

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"The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones."

Wisdom

"What do you know?"Almost everything. That almost part can be a real kick in the teeth sometimes."What do you want, then?"What I can't have. Wit turned to him, eyes solemn. "Same as everyone else, Kaladin Stormblessed."

Knowledge

"Magic works best for me when it aligns with scientific principles."

Fantasy

"If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable."

Life

"People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so-therefore-are their beliefs."

Ethics

"A scholar knows not to waste time rediscovering information already known."

Education

"He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible."

Reality

"Why did they believe? Because they saw miracles. Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign. A loved one recovering from disease, a fortunate business deal, a chance meeting with a long lost friend. It wasn't the grand doctrines or the sweeping ideals that seemed to make believers out of men. It was the simple magic in the world around them."

Faith

"When I finally lie down, I find sleep elusive. The same thoughts that trouble me during the day are only compounded by the stillness of night."

Mindfulness

"Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are."

Identity