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I must be cruel, only to be kind.

‘s one of the perversities of the age: I’m embarrassed by its success, but I’m happy it’s selling.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.