Contradiction

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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself

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Topic

Contradiction Inconsistency Human nature

Author

Walt Whitman

Source

Song of Myself Leaves of Grass

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1855 1850s 19th century

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Original Citation

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: Self-published, 1855, poem 1.

Current Citation

Whitman, Walt. "Song of Myself." Leaves of Grass and Other Writings. W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, sect. 51.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Topic

Intelligence Contradiction Ideas

Author

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source

The Crack-Up Esquire

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1936 1930s 20th century

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Original Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." Esquire, Feb. 1936.

Current Citation

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Crack-Up." My Lost City: Personal Essays, 1920-1940, edited by James L.W. West, III. Cambridge UP, 2005.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H.P. Lovecraft

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Topic

Making sense of things Contradiction

Author

H.P. Lovecraft

Source

The Call of Cthulhu

Medium

Short story

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. "The Call of Cthulhu." Weird Tales, Feb. 1928.

Current Citation

Lovecraft, Howard Phillips. "The Call of Cthulhu." The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, edited by S. T. Joshi. Penguin Classics, 2016.

The "one" that I am is composed of narratives that overlap, run parallel to, and often contradict each other.

Glenn Ligon

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Topic

Personal identity Contradiction

Author

Glenn Ligon

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2011 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Ligon, Glenn. Yourself in the World: Selected Writings and Interviews, edited by Scott Rothkopf. Yale University Press, 2011.