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paradox Noun 1. a statement that seems self-contradictory but may be true: it's a strange paradox that a musician must practise improvising to become a good improviser 2. a self-contradictory proposition, such as I always tell lies 3. a person or thing that is made up of contradictory elements [Greek paradoxos opposed to existing notions] paradoxical adj
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| Which sentiment being a pretty hard morsel, and bearing something of the air of a paradox, we shall leave the reader to chew the cud upon it to the end of the chapter. Not the world,' but the 'one wise man,' is still the paradox of Socrates in his last hours. He destroys birth and death, and dissipates to mist the paradox of being, until his victim cries out, as in "The City of Dreadful Night": "Our life's a cheat, our death a black abyss. |
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