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“To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.”
Roland Barthes quotes (French Critic, 1915-1980)
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“Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement”
Thomas Wolfe quotes (American short story writer and novelist, 1900-1938)
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“It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.”
Hugo Black quotes (American Jurist, Lawyer and Politician best known for his absolutist belief in the Bill of Rights as a guarant, 1886-1971)
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“So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence.”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
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“For thence - a paradox Which comforts while it mocks, - Shall life succeed in that it seems to fail: What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me: A brute I might have been, but would not sink i' the scale”
Robert Browning quotes (Major English Poet of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. 1812-1889)

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“It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.”
Herbert Hoover quotes (American President, 1874-1964)
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“The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.”
Soren Kierkegaard quotes (Danish Philosopher and Theologian, generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher. 1813-1855)
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“Life is a paradox, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't”
Nancy Cartwright quotes (American Actress, b.1957) Character: Bart Simpson quotes. TV Show: The Simpsons quotes
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“There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so”
Charles Caleb Colton quotes (English sportsman and writer, 1780-1832)
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“... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes (American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)

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