Quotes About Contradiction

La carencia misma de responsabilidad le producía sentimientos contradictorios: una sensación inusitada de libertad al mismo tiempo que una frustración inexplicable.

Quanto a noi, ci rifiutiamo di lasciarci squartare tra la tesi e l'antitesi. Concepiamo senza alcuna difficoltà come un uomo, anche se il suo ambiente lo condiziona totalmente, possa essere un centro di indeterminazione irriducibile.

Nada ha cambiado y, sin embargo, todo existe de otra manera. No puedo describirlo; es como la Náusea y, sin embargo, es precisamente lo contrario: al fin me sucede otra aventura, y cuando me interrogo veo que me sucedo que yo soy yo y que estoy aquí; soy yo quien hiende la noche; me siento feliz como un héroe de novela.

I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone

Hopeless heart that thrives on paradox; that longs for the beloved and is secretly relieved when the beloved is not there.

Nothing has an unlikely quality. It is heavy.

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.

She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.

I love her. Then you do not love the Lord. Yes, I love both of them. You cannot. I do.

I am civilised. My feelings are not.

Wrong to seal illogic with a kiss but I do it myself all the time.

It was Hell, if hell is where the life we love cannot exist.

St. Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry.

lo misterioso me inquieta siempre, es harto contrario a mi carácter, abierto hasta la imprudencia.

Men are wicked, yes, but man is good.

As awful as he could be, I always knew he loved me in a way no one else ever had.

Quelle drôle d'idée. Croire en Dieu. On ne pouvait pas croire en Dieu quand on jouait à la cesta punta. Ni quand on traitait toute l'année avec la souffrance et la maladie, ou qu'à la maison le suicide était un sport national, et qu'en guise de complies, on allait se recueillir régulièrement devant un petit ex-voto formolé de Joseph Staline.

one cannot hate a man more than one can love him." The

We have to deal with human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is.

You are what you are not and are not what you are.

We still have not defined the intellectual yet: all we have are technicians of practical knowledge who either accommodate themselves to their contradiction or manage to avoid suffering from it. But when one of them becomes aware of the fact that despite the universality of his work it serves only particular interests, then his awareness of this contradiction - what Hegel called an 'unhappy consciousness' - is precisely what characterizes him as an intellectual.

Every human reality is a passion in that it projects losing itself so as to found being and by the same stroke to constitute the In-itself which escapes contingency by being its own foundation, the Ens causa sui, which religions call God. Thus the passion of man is the reverse of that of Christ, for man loses himself as man in order that God may be born. But the idea of God is contradictory and we lose ourselves in vain. Man is a useless passion.

I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days.