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«The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.»
«The most exquisite paradox? as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.»
«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.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
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active, address, excess, hiding, inconceivable, in essence, I Want You, message, one and the same, paradox, resolve, The Message, totally
«The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.»
Author: Shana Alexander
(Editor, Host, Journalist, Teacher)
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Reality
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compelling, image, in the mind, paradox
«The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.»
Author: Earl Warren
(Judge, Politician)
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Paradox
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imperatives, internationalism, paradox, tragic
«The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.»
«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.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
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embryo, Embryos, exposed, grandiose, in embryo, paradox, paradoxes, pathos, thinker
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