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People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

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