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

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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do. – George Moore

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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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