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Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.

—Mark Twain

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Oh, I hate you some,
I hate you some,
I love you some

—Joni Mitchell

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Why'd you have to go and make
things so complicated?

—Avril Lavigne

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There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

—Pascal

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There was only one catch, and that was Catch-22.

—Joseph Heller

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

—Walt Whitman

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yes
it is possible
to hate and love someone
at the same time
i do it to myself
every day

—rupi kaur

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Without contraries is no progression.

—William James

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A denial, a denial
A denial, a denial
A denial, a denial
A denial, a denial
A denial

—Nirvana

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The hardest to learn
was the least complicated

—Indigo Girls

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We are contradictory creatures, wondrously and terrifyingly so.

—Jamieson Webster

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Poem: To Be a Person

Poem: Candlelight

Poem: Earl

Poem: Good Bones

Poem: Unfortunate Location

Poem: How Good Fortune Surprises Us

Poem: Sonoma Fire

Poem: Rare Moment

Poem: Real Estate

On cognitive dissonance · elaborated

The virtues of being bad

The case against being a good person

When the art we love was created by a monster

When wellness can’t bring happiness

‘Pinchy would have wanted it this way’

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