Quotes About Contrast

La aurora de Nueva York tiene cuatro columnas de cieno y un huracán de negras palomas que chapotean las aguas podridas

Al gemir la santa niña, quiebra el cristal de las copas. La rueda afila cuchillos y garfios de aguda comba: brama el toro de los yunques, y Mérida se corona de nardos casi despiertos y tallos de zarzamora.

Cuando el chino lloraba en el tejado sin encontrar el desnudo de su mujer y el director del banco observaba el manómetro que mide el cruel silencio de la moneda, el mascarón llegaba a Wall Street.

Era hermoso jinete, y ahora montón de nieve. Corrió ferias y montes y brazos de mujeres. Ahora, musgo de noche le corona la frente

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets lost, but I recognise that New York is the world's greatest lie.

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold-hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes.

En vez de entrar en las tiendas, prefiere sentarse en la iglesia y practicar su ateísmo silencioso.

Uno en las comunas sube hacia el cielo pero bajando hacia los infiernos.

Vivir es negocio triste –pensó mientras orinaba–. Los momentos de felicidad no compensan la desgracia.

Sigan brillando, genios nuestros de la administración y de las leyes, que mientras más brillen ustedes nosotros más nos apagamos.

La grandeza del hombre sólo se puede medir por su capacidad de desastre El éxito sabe a miel empalagosa: el fracaso a limón con sal.

Capitalism is using its money we socialists throw it away.

She'd braced herself for a hard, plundering, ravaging assault, but the sweetness of his caress was butterfly-soft, and so beguiling that she ached for him to deepen the pressure. Her hands lifted and settled on the incredible warmth of his chest as she parted her lips and tilted her head to grant him easier access. She was as guilty of misjudging Cullen as everyone else was—he looked every inch an outlaw, but he was kissing her like an angel. A fallen, dangerously beautiful angel.

She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

Human greatness has always had sadness for a companion.

Imagine a state of affairs in which, for each man killed in action, two spring from the ground full of strength and energy. If there is a planet where such things happen, war, it must be admitted, is conducted there under conditions so different from those we see down here that it no longer deserves even to be called by the same name.

Cunoa?te?i diferen?a dintre boga?i ?i s?raci? S?racii vând droguri pentru ca s?-?i cumpere Nike, iar boga?ii vând Nike pentru ca s?-?i cumpere droguri.

And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.

Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.

I love Germany so much that I am glad there are two of them.

Mandelion spread itself like a butterfly of brick and slate.

It was as if somebody had found a gentle, dignified old lady whose friends were all dead and forced her to wear a funny hat.

The Childersins were armed with swords and daggers. The Cartographers were armed with nothing but surprise, but really quite a lot of surprise.