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

“I am large, I contain multitudes”

“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”

“In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself”

“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”

“Yes, now my mind is easy, I know the game is won, I lost them all till now, but it's the last that counts. A very fine achievement I must say, or rather would, if I did not fear to contradict myself. Fear to contradict myself! If this continues it is myself I shall lose and the thousand ways that lead there. And I shall resemble the wretches famed in fable, crushed beneath the weight of their wish come true. And I even feel a strange desire come over me, the desire to know what I am doing, and why. So I near the goal I set myself in my young days and which prevented me from living. And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another. Very pretty.”