Quotes About Contrast

Their daughter came in in full evening dress, her fresh young flesh exposed (making a show of that very flesh which in his own case caused so much suffering), strong, healthy, evidently in love, and impatient with illness, suffering, and death, because they interfered with her happiness. Fyodor

How can he talk like that?" thought Pierre. He considered his friend a model of perfection because Prince Andrew possessed in the highest degree just the very qualities Pierre lacked, and which might be best described as strength of will.

Toda la diversidad, la hermosura, el encanto de la vida, se componen de luces y sombras.

To Konstantin Levin the country was good first because it afforded a field for labor, of the usefulness of which there could be no doubt. To Sergey Ivanovitch the country was particularly good, because there it was possible and fitting to do nothing.

There was in her the glow of the real diamond among glass imitations.

Stepan Arkadyevitch felt exactly the difference that Pyotr Oblonsky described. In Moscow he degenerated so much that if he had had to be there for long together, he might in good earnest have come to considering his salvation; in Petersburg he felt himself a man of the world again.

Tout était si beau, joyeux et pur dans la maison ; mais dans son âme tout était laid, sale, horrible.

Amid the scattered property and the crowd on the open space, she in her rich satin cloak with a bright lilac shawl on her head suggested a delicate exotic plant thrown out onto the snow. She

Now she understood that Anna could not have been in lilac, and that her charm was just that she always stood out against her attire, that her dress could never be noticeable on her. And her black dress, with its sumptuous lace, was not noticeable on her; it was only the frame, and all that was seen was she—simple, natural, elegant, and at the same time gay and eager.

He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he was radiant with freshness and health.

But Nikolay was brimming with such innocent good humour that now and then even the husband fell prey to his exuberance. Towards the end of the evening, however, as the wife's face grew redder and livelier, the husband's grew steadily paler and sadder. It was as if they had been issued with a limited amount of vivacity between them, and as the wife's share of it rose, the husband's dwindled away.

Loss and gain are brothers twain.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." Levin

Una sonrisa iluminó su rostro; pero al mismo tiempo suspiró y su profunda mirada expresó una apacible tristeza. Como si además de la felicidad que experimentaba existiera otra, inaccesible en esta vida, que en aquel momento recordó involuntariamente.

Outside there was the same still frost, the same moonlight, only even brighter than before. The light was so bright, and there were so many stars sparkling in the snow, that the sky did not attract the eye, and the real stars were hardly noticeable. The sky was all blackness and dreariness, the earth all brightness.

a nap "after dinner was silver — before dinner, golden.")

The second party was directly opposed to the first; one extreme, as always happens, was met by representatives of the other.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. (a reference to a Tom Paine quote)

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in

even damnation is poisoned with rainbows.

We are ugly but we have the music.