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This was the bad version. This version was what later events told her had happened. It was as real as the other. They played simultaneously in a loop, yet Mathilde could never quite believe it. That twitch of a leg, a later insertion, surely. She could not believe, and yet something in her did believe, and this contradiction that she held within her became the source of everything. All that remained were the facts. Before it all happened she had been so beloved, afterward, love had been withdrawn. And she had pushed or she hadn't, the result had been all the same. There had been no forgiveness for her, but she had been so very young. How could parents do this? How could she not have been forgiven?

Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms. [Curb your enthusiasm,2016]

When you feel hatred towards your life, hate it. See how it will actually do something to your life.

What is considered [True] Knowledge? There should be solution from all sides, there should be no contradiction. It is a non-contradicting principle when a spoken sentence will be the same even after fifty years; there will be no contradictions.

What you call 'contradiction' I call 'complement'.

To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.

Transcendence transfigures; it does not reconcile, but rather transmutes opposites into something surpassing them that effaces their oppositions.

Truthful hyperbole’ is a contradiction in terms. It’s a way of saying, ‘It’s a lie, but who cares?’

Where in the Bible are we told in one verse not to do a thing and in the next to do it? ‘Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.’ Prov. xxvi. 4. ‘Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.’ Prov. xxvi. 5.

Your eyes will contradict your words if your words contradict your thoughts and feelings.

You appear to be a mass of contradictions," Dr Washburn said. "There's a subsurface violence almost always in control, but very much alive. There's also a pensiveness that seems painful for you, yet you rarely give vent to the anger that pain must provoke.

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.

An anguish of longing would boil up inside me; a hysterical thirst for contradictions and contrasts would appear, and I would embark on dissipations.

You seem to be in a state of such absolute contradiction that I would not be surprised if your face tore in half.

A church without a missions or a mission without the church are both contradictions. Such things do exist, but only as pseudostructures

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

All my own experience of life teaches me the contempt of cunning, not the fear. The phrase "profound cunning," has always seemed to me a contradiction in terms. I never knew a cunning mind which was not either shallow, or on some point diseased.

A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction.

An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.

A non-serving Christian is a contradiction in terms.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

A proud faith is as much a contradiction as a humble devil.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

As if finding a guy to solve your problems isn't a contradiction of terms.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction.

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

Being a victim is more palatable than having to recognize the intrinsic contradictions of one's own governing philosophy.

But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or sub oppressors. The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradiction of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them to be men is to be oppressors

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

Consumer culture is contradiction in terms

Contradiction is the salt which keeps truth from corruption

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Contradiction is the lever of transcendence.

Contradictions make people feel off. They'll say, "Hey, you just said this and now this person is doing that, how is that possible?

Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes.

Dada Dada Dada, a roaring of tense colors, and interlacing of opposites and of all contradictions, grotesques, inconsistencies: LIFE.

Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.