Quotes About Contrast

A soap bubble is as real as a fossil tooth.

I am trying to describe these things not to relive them in my present boundless misery, but to sort out the portion of hell and the portion of heaven in that strange, awful, maddening world...

The beastly and beautiful merged at one point, and it is that borderline I would like to fix, and I feel I fail to do so utterly.

The old and the new, the liberal touch and the patriarchal one, fatal poverty and fatalistic wealth got fantastically interwoven in that strange first decade of our century.

beautiful weeds that cannot hide from the farmer and helplessly have to watch the shadow of his simian stoop leave mangled flowers in its wake, as the monstrous darkness approaches.

milk, molasses, foaming champagne

los veo nítidamente divididos en una amplia zona de luz y una estrecha banda de sombra: la luz pertenecía al solaz de investigar en bibliotecas suntuosas; la sombra, a los deseos atormentadores y los insomnios sobre los cuales ya he dicho bastante.

against the background of that black velvet which lines at night the underside of the eyelids, Marthe's face appeared as in a locket

He wants everything to be so simple—as, alas, it never is in real life!

To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she would--invariably, with icy precision--plump for the former.

the beastly and beautiful merged at one point, and it is that borderline I would like to fix

I would stare at the honest brightness of the gasoline paraphernalia against the splendid green of oaks or at a distant hill scrambling out — scarred but still untamed — from the wilderness of agriculture that was trying to swallow it.

Je suis saine de corps, et absolument obscène dans mes pensées, ma parole, mes actes.

She combined a cool forwardness -the overflow of what I think is called "poise"- with a shyness and sadness that caused her detached way of selecting her words to seem as unnatural as the intonation of a professor of "speech.

Magnolia Flowers The quiet fading out of life In a corner full of ugliness.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

The softest things in the world to overcome the hardest things in the world.

His mouth was the only bit of softness on him. Wide and sensual, lips parted slightly in his drugged state, his mouth was profanely beautiful.

I could say I think coulds are pretty, and you'd say they're only pretty to demons.

he stretched out beside her, uncomfortably close, as if they were lovers. Real lovers and not the most mismatched pair of fuck buddies ever.

Remember that when he's slaughtering you. It's important that the guy strangling the life out of you is drop-dead gorgeous.

If I were any of those things, I think the last place I'd be is in the middle of nowhere. I'm guessing you don't have a huge drug or slave problem in your one-stoplight town." "Two," she snapped. "There are two stoplights." "Oh, well, then, I'll see if I can get the slave trade going in your thriving metropolis.

Opposites attract. If two people just alike get married, one of you is unnecessary.

You and I are opposite sides of the same coin. When we face each other, we can finally see our true selves. There may be a resemblance, but we never face the same direction.