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She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.
― Julio Cortázar
Life
Writing
Opposites
A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
― Thomas Mann
Truth
Opposites
Great
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
― Thomas Mann
Beauty
Opposites
Giving
Solitude
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
― Louis Aragon
Meaningful
Pungent
Opposites
Louis Aragon
When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction! — Peace Pilgrim
Opposites
Needs
Weight
Positive Thoughts
Direction
Uniting two halves of one soul is inevitable, but timing depends upon your level of spirituality. When the time is ripe, true soul mates find one another even if they are worlds apart— whether physically, on opposite sides of the globe, or spiritually, with contrasting lifestyles and backgrounds. Here’s wishing you the courage to keep growing so that you may know – or continue to know – the blessing of oneness.
― Yehuda Berg
Yehuda Berg
Blessing
Opposites
Two
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
― Coco Chanel
Inspirational
PositiveAttitude
Opposites
Coco Chanel
Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape.
― Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
Book
Reading
Opposites
Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole
― Karl Marx
Ignorance
Opposites
Agony
Karl Marx
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.
― U. G. Krishnamurti
U. G. Krishnamurti
Prayer
Self
Opposites