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“There is some firm place in me which knows that what happened to Wally, whatever it was, whatever it is that death is as it transliterates us, moving us out of this life into what we cant know, is ...”
“He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.”
“They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.”
“Each of us is several, is man, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the colony of our being ther...”
“I was driven to reflect deeply and inveterately on that hard law of life, which lies at the root of religion and is one of the most plentiful springs of distress. Though so profound a double-dealer...”
“In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.”
“Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. Thats what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the thou sh...”
“Nothing which implies contradiction falls under the omnipotence of God.”
“I like contradictions. We have never attained the infinite variety and contradictions that exist in nature. Tomorrow I shall contradict myself. That is the one way I have of asserting my liberty, t...”
“I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the...”
“One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.”
“... I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken heart with the pangs, sordid in my young mind, of wounded vanity. I had not yet learnt how contradi...”
“When you feel hatred towards your life, hate it. See how it will actually do something to your life.”
“I have a friend [whose] mom is very, very Christian and crazy religiousShes like that for all the wrong reasons and isnt actually true to her word. She doesnt practice what she preaches. The things...”
“You are the most ludicrous excuse for a man I've ever known - but there isn't a centimetre of you that I don't think is perfect.”
“Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.”
“Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce proofs of immortality and the existence of God. They have found fault with the proofs of their predecessors ...”
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidenta...”
“...Erich Fromm wondered why most people did not become insane in the face of the existential contradiction between a symbolic self, that seems to give man infinite worth in a timeless scheme of thi...”
“Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.[Curb your enthusiasm,2016]”
