Paradox

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Agathon. Quoted in Ῥητορική [Rhetoric], written by Aristotle. c. 350 BC.

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Agathon. Quoted in Rhetoric, written by Aristotle, translated by W. Rhys Roberts. Dover Publications, 2004.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Picture of Dorian Gray." Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Philadelphia, July 1890, ch. 6.

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Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Robert Mighall. Penguin Classics, 2003, ch. 8.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 257

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 257.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 19:30).

Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray.

Jianzhi Sengcan

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Seng Ts'an. Xinxin Ming. c. 600.

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Seng Ts'an. Hsin-Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind, translated by Richard B. Clarke. White Pine Press, 2001.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

Salman Rushdie

Midnight's Children

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Rushdie, Salman. "Perforated Sheet." Midnight's Children. Jonathan Cape, 1981, bk. 1.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects." Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 2nd ed, Vol. 1, London: Sam Fairbrother, 1727.

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Swift, Jonathan. "Thoughts on Various Subjects (1711)." Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings, edited by Claude Rawson and Ian Higgins. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist." Intentions. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1891, pt. 1.

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Wilde, Oscar. "The Critic as Artist Part I." Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Washington, George. "First Annual Message to Both Houses of Congress." 8 Jan. 1790, Senate Chamber, Federal Hall, New York City, NY, USA.

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Washington, George. "First Annual Message to Congress, January 8, 1790." George Washington: Writings, edited by John Rhodehamel. Library of America, 1997.

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Tacitus. Agricola. c. 98.

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Tacitus. "Agricola." Agricola and Germany, translated by Anthony Birley. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr. "Nobel Lecture." Les Prix Nobel en 1964. [The Nobel Peace Prize 1964.] 11 Dec. 1964, Auditorium of the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

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Einstein, Albert. "Physics and Reality." The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Mar. 1936.

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Einstein, Albert. "Physics and Reality." The Essential Einstein: His Greatest Works. Penguin, 2008, ch. 13.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Directed by Ang Lee, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia/Good Machine International/Edko Films/Zoom Hunt Productions/China Film Co-production Corp./Asia Union Film & Entertainment, 2000.

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Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 6.

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Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 6.

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Washington, Booker T. The Story of My Life and Work. W. H. Ferguson Co., 1900.

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Epicurus. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 125.

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Epicurus. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 10, ch. 1, sect. 125.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Regained." Paradise Regained, A Poem in 4 Books, to which is added Samson Agonistes. London: John Starkey, 1671, bk. 4, I. 293.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Regained." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, I. 293.

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Pope, Alexander. Letter to John Gay. 6 Oct. 1727.

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Pope, Alexander. "To Gay, Twickenham, Oct. 16, 1727." Alexander Pope: Selected Letters, edited by Howard Erksine-Hill. Oxford University Press, 2000, no. 16.

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Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 2.

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Menander. "Dis Exapaton [The Double Deceiver]." Plays and Fragments. c. 290 BC.

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Menander. "Twice a Swindler (Dis Exapaton)." Plays and Fragments, translated by Maurice Balme. Oxford University Press, 2008.