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Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality. — Albert Camus
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself. — Erich Fromm
Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her desires, as well… — David Corbett
If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex… — Joost Meerloo
Evidence that [feminine aesthetic preferences and ways of expressing oneself] may be hardwired comes from the fact that they typically appear early in childhood and… — Julia Serano
It’s time to put away our fairytales, all of them, and assume our responsibilities, the adult responsibilities that begin with adult knowledge. Our planet needs… — Lierre Keith
That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his… — Freda Adler
Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile. — Anne Hathaway
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture… — Elihu Palmer
The usual marriage in traditional cultures was arranged for by the families. It wasn't a person-to-person decision at all. . . . In the Middle… — Joseph Campbell
Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the… — Julian Critchley
Reality is the apparent absence of contradiction. The marvelous is the eruption of contradiction within the real. — Louis Aragon
Contradiction is the lever of transcendence. — Simone Weil
The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world… — Italo Calvino
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being — Sergei Eisenstein
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time… — Karl Popper
The desire for a nonviolent and cooperative world is the healthiest of all psychological manifestations. This is the overarching principle of liberation and revolution. Undoubtedly,… — Ward Churchill
Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but… — Sylvie Guillem
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to… — Baron d'Holbach
A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms. — Rick Warren
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners… — Flannery O'Connor
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each revelation… — Edward Gibbon
Gatting at fine leg - that's a contradiction in terms. — Richie Benaud

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