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«Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star...»
Author: E. E. Cummings
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Love
| Keywords:
feebleness, mere, opposite, silences, star, The Voice, voice
«Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.»
«Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.»
«Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: A woman having large breasts makes men stupid.»
«Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.»
«Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite»
«On a traffic light green means go and yellow means yield, but on a banana it's just the opposite. Green means hold on, yellow means go ahead, and red means where the hell did you get that banana at...»
«Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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beware, opposite, rare, species, The Dead
«I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has had to do was read my works and do the opposite»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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articles, Articles of, opposite, parliament, parliaments, perfectly, the article
«One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite -- that particular peach is but a detail.»
Author: Pablo Picasso
(Artist, Painter)
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detail, for one, opposite, painting, particular, peach, peaches
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