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Quotes About Contradiction

So, it's private appropriation on the basis of socialized production. That's the fundamental contradiction at the heart of capitalism.
~ Bob Avakian
I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
~ Bob Dylan
You can't be wise and in love at the same time. – Bob Dylan, No Direction Home (2005) Directed by Martin Scorsese.
~ Bob Dylan
And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
comprendió con alguna amargura que nada podía esperar de aquellos alumnos que aceptaban con pasividad su doctrina y sí de aquellos que arriesgaban, a veces, una contradicción razonable. Los primeros, aunque dignos de amor y de bueno afecto, no podían ascender a individuos; los últimos preexistían un poco más.
~ BORGES JORGE LUIS
Concordo com o senhor até certo ponto, Nil Feoktístovitch. Mas Tolstói diz que quanto mais o homem se entrega à beleza, mais se afasta do bem. — E o senhor pensa o contrário? Que a beleza salvará o mundo? Acredita em mistérios e coisas semelhantes, em Rózanov e Dostoiévski?
~ Boris Pasternak
Stalin } took care always to say the opposite of what he did, and do the opposite of what he said.
~ Boris Souvarine
That's the strange thing about love. One minute you can have your tongue up someone's arse, and the next you can't even communicate.
~ Boy George
Hollywood was a lot like a Charles dickens novel. It could be the best of places; it could be the worst of places. Machiavelli, Dante, Shakespeare… all would have felt at home here. Tinseltown was a bustling contradiction. It was a modern day Zanzabar; a slavemarket were souls were bartered, sold, and stolen seemingly on the hour, every hour. It was also a place of incredible genius and beauty, where dreams still came true.
~ Brad Thor
Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.
~ Bram Stoker
Nunca conseguiríamos ficar juntos porque era demasiado doloroso... excepto quando era inacreditavelmente perfeito.
~ Sylvia Day
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll e flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
~ Sylvia Plath
I am both worse and better than you thought.
~ Sylvia Plath
Neurotic, ha! I let out a scornful laugh. If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
~ Sylvia Plath
She looks like a woman who has found it ridiculous to commit herself to a single emotional stance in anything, but must always ride high heavy irony.
~ Sylvia Plath
I cry at everything. Simply to spite myself and embarrass myself.
~ Sylvia Plath
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
~ Sylvia Plath
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.
~ Sylvia Plath
If neurotic is wanting two mutally exclusive things at once and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutally exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
~ Sylvia Plath
Cîte zile-oi mai avea, o s? zbor încoace È™i încolo între lucruri care se exclud reciproc.
~ Sylvia Plath
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.
~ Sylvia Plath
Nëse të qenit neurotike do të thotë të duash dy gjëra, që në të njëjtën kohë e përjashtojnë njëra-tjetrën, atëherë unë jam neurotike si dreqi. Dhe për sa të kem jetë, unë do të rend pra, pas këtyre gjërave që përjashtojnë njëra-tjetrën.
~ Sylvia Plath
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.' Buddy put his hand on mine. 'Let me fly with you.
~ Sylvia Plath
if neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then i'm neurotic as all hell
~ Sylvia Plath