#contradict

Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#contradictions #historians #justifies #makes #nation

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found. ↗

— Billy Collins

#poetry #love

So you're trying to make her happy despite the fact that the reason she'd unhappy in the first place is you," said Simon not very kindly. "That seems contradictory, doesn't it?" "Love is a contradiction," said Jace, and turned back to the window. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-fallen-angels #contradiction #jace #love #simon

One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#human-nature #nature

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions. ↗

— Andre Breton

#cease #certain #certain point #communicable #contradictions

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing. ↗

— Miguel de Unamuno

#himself #must #never #nothing #person

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#deny #forget #i #never #sometimes

Good morning is a contradiction of terms. ↗

— Jim Davis

#contradiction #good #good morning #terms

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door. ↗

— Simone Weil

#door #except #impossible #know #lie

I know that everyone who listens to radio creates you in a visual image that they need you to have. Whatever that is, I thought, let them have it. Let me be who the listener needs me to be and let me not contradict that with the reality of my photograph and risk disappointing them. ↗

— Terry Gross

#creates #disappointing #everyone #i #image