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You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Writer's block is a natural affliction. Writers who have never experienced it have something wrong with them. It means there isn't enough friction-that they aren't… — Stanley Kunitz
...I felt that photography ought to start with and remain faithful to the appearance of the world, and in so doing record contradictions. The greatest… — Robert Adams
On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows… — Thomas Carlyle
Socialist thought owes its appeal to the young largely to its visionary character; the very courage to indulge in Utopian thought is in this respect… — Friedrich August von Hayek
Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs… — Therese of Lisieux
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness is not all stillness; where… — Rabindranath Tagore
Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black… — Vincent Cassel
Much of the left's hate speech bears greater similarity to a psychological disorder than to standard political discourse. The hatred is blinding, producing logical contradictions… — Ann Coulter
In the whole history of movies, there has been nothing like Kubrick's vision. It was a vision of hope and wonder, of grace and of… — Steven Spielberg
Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I… — Jessica Hagedorn
Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called… — Thomas Paine
I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced… — Mikhail Lermontov
There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis.… — Madeleine L'Engle
The philosophy of praxis does not aim at the peaceful resolution of existing contradictions in history and society, but is the very theory of these… — Antonio Gramsci
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with… — Emile M. Cioran
Life is never free of contradictions — Manmohan Singh
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
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
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
It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being — Sergei Eisenstein
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
Though the contradictions of war seem sudden and simultaneous, history stalks before it strikes. Something tolerated soon becomes something good. — Anne Michaels

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