#contradict

A king who’s innocent of the things of which he’s guilty? ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#humor #king #humor

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#merely #more #speech #than #ways

War is essential for peace ↗

— Ram Mohan

#inspiration #irony #peace #though #war

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity. ↗

— Richard Kadrey

#insanity #intelligence #intelligence

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process. ↗

— Harper Lee

#dilemma #reasons #society #life

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

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#human-nature #nature

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#longing #love #solitude #love

Seemed she should learn to smile when she was unhappy, to stop laughing, to speak up, to never speak to strangers, to share guilt for the acts of strangers, that strangers made the laws of the land, that the laws of the land valued things over life, that life ended if a stranger decided it, to be where she could be found, to feel one thing and do another. How could she hang so many contradictions in one skull ↗

— Steve Aylett

#life #love #life

The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory. ↗

— Ivan Doig

#love #love