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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid confor

I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. – Marcel Duchamp

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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position. – Marcel Duchamp

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Beauty
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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because Ive noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. – Marcel Duchamp

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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes). – Walt Whitman

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Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. – Georges Bataille

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms. – George Bernard Shaw

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