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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themsel

The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde

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As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. – Oscar Wilde

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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it. – Oscar Wilde

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means. – Oscar Wilde

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

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What an antithetical mind! — tenderness, roughness — delicacy, coarseness — sentiment, sensuality — soaring and groveling, dirt and deity — all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay! – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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

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