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Paradox Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.
- I played with an idea, and grew willful; tossed it into the air; transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with…
- Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
- We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
- The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
- In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
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