"Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
— Oscar Wilde

"Artemis simple-toon"
— Eoin Colfer

"Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. "
— Zsa Zsa Gabor

"'Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?"
"Of course, darling. Come here."
I took a few steps into the room. There was so much I wanted to say.
"I need you to be --" I said, and then I started to cry.
"Be what?" she said, opening her arms.
"Not sad," I said."
— Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)

"'how does she know it's the right room?' wondered Descant.
'Oh, I don't know; mabye it's the magical red glow coming from the doorway, or perhaps it's the deafening howl of the temporal winds.' said Mervall.
Descant nodded.'You could be right, brother. And don't think I don't know sarcasm when I hear it.'"
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox)

"One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame."
— Eoin Colfer (Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox)

"“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.” "
— Niels Bohr

"His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching."
— Robert A. Heinlein

"Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted."
— Isaiah Berlin (The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas)

"And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly."
— Julian Barnes (Arthur and George)

"If you run from enemy fire, I'll make you wash dishes for the rest of your life!

20th Century Boys, Vol.19 ch.7 p.128"
— Naoki Urasawa

"Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most writers spend their lives writing about unexpected malice in the supposedly virtuous, and unexpected virtue in the supposedly sinful. "
— Thomas Keneally (Searching for Schindler)

"He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. No more baffling, exasperating soldier ever wore a uniform. Flamboyant, imperious, and apocalyptic, he carried the plumage of a flamingo, could not acknowledge errors, and tried to cover up his mistakes with sly, childish tricks. Yet he was also endowed with great personal charm, a will of iron, and a soaring intellect. Unquestionably he was the most gifted man-at arms- this nation has produced. -William Manchester on Douglas MacArthur"
— William Raymond Manchester

"Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence."
— Mark Helprin (A Soldier of the Great War)

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
— Søren Kierkegaard

"The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox."
— Kedar Joshi

"Resilience is based on the ability to embrace the extremes -- while no becoming an extremist. ... **Most companies don't do paradox very well.**

(emphasis by author)
[2002] p.25f"
— Gary Hamel (Leading the Revolution: How to Thrive in Turbulent Times by Making Innovation a Way of Life)

"When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth."
— Lord Acton

"[...] cela m'excite de penser à tout ce qui fuit dans la vie au nom de la vie."
— Nicole Brossard (La Capture du sombre)

"An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Sweedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. "
— Edith Wharton

"Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution. "
— Edward Teller (The pursuit of simplicity)

"Indeterminacy has been overdetermined.

from "Reality and its Antecedents: Fifty Statements on Life and Art.""
— Paul Hoover (Poems in Spanish)