Word: paradoxes
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...high a price for modern medicine is too high a price? There is, as usual, no clear answer. The problem itself reflects a paradox best stated by French Novelist André Malraux: "A human life is worth nothing, but nothing is worth a human life...
Mario Vargas Llosa, 48, on the paradox of being a Latin American novelist: "Because you know how to read and write, you have an audience, you are respected-even by people who repress you and sometimes put you in prison or even kill you. In fact, if you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know...
...trying to imagine what Van Gogh would have made of all this. Neither the modern mass audience for art, nor the elevation of the artist as a secular saint, nor the undercurrent of faith in the expiratory powers of self-sacrificial genius really existed in 1890. The insoluble paradox of museumgoing, which is that famous art gets blotted out by the size of its public, had not become an issue, and it was not thought "elitist" to express regrets about it. Yet one feels it matters more with Van Gogh than with flabby events like last year's Vatican...
...other purpose. It is very difficult not to resent that. I would prefer for such cliques not to exist. I think particularly that one could argue that in a university they impede education and interaction so much that they have no place here. Nevertheless, one has to recognize the paradox of friendship. Exclusive groups often create friendships, very deep character builders for the individuals who belong to them. These are valuable for those individuals. I can think of nothing to say against that...Without friendship, what are we? What are we without friends? I can't decide...Everything...
...City fans, but deftly declined to interpret the meaning of his work. Eco did talk about the pressures of fame and fortune. "I used to think that financial success would enable me to pursue my interests more," explained Eco. "The exact opposite has happened. It's quite a paradox...