Quotes About Contrast

Finding a store that sells synthetic hair in Kigali is easier than locating a Starbucks in New York City without Google Maps.

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty

As we passed by on the stony causeway, women looked up at us from the fields, their faces furrowed with all known distresses. By their sides, lambs skipped in gaiety and innocence, and goats skipped in gaiety but without innocence, and at their feet the cyclamens shone mauve; the beasts and flowers seemed fortunate because they are not human, as those who have passed within the breath of a plague and have escaped it.

skin white as snow, hair black as night...

It was Night. In most places, Night is a time for sleep, for calm, and for mystery. But not in New York City, where many things conspired every evening to murder the night.

Moral psychology has a metaphysical foundation; self-interest implies community, and community, universality. Egoism has as its contrast altruism; but that contrast is otiose if the good of the self is the good of the others.

There are two classes of people who hide themselves: the criminal who flees punishment, and the saint who through humility wishes to remain unknown.

Though every prospect pleases,And only man is vile.

Difference is not the opposite of harmony but its condition.

Ni fetichiser ni stigmatiser: remplacer Versus par Verso.

Winter and Summer While it's summer people say Winter is the better season. Such is human reason. Kamijima Onitsura

Like a lightning bug... Like a lightning bug?... Yes, just like a night lightning bug; because there are day lightning bugs too - even if nobody has ever seen one, I know there are some, and I know the day lightning bugs are the cockroaches that since they can't light up, people kill them.

The ice is not very thick; the ocean beneath it is deep and tempestuous; and the sun above is warm and melting.

Ik weet een station in een onbekende stad kan soms vertrouwder zijn dan het trappenhuis van je eigen woning

Niet te geloven dat ik knaap nog een vers schreef over de zilverwitheid van een berkestam en om mij heen grootse dronkenschap van de bevrijding: het water was whisky geworden. Alles zoop en naaide, heel Europa was een groot matras en de hemel het plafond van een derderangshotel. En ik bedeesde jongeling moest nodig de reine berk bezingen en zijn bescheiden bladerpracht.

Dans nos ténèbres, il n'y a pas une place pour la Beauté. Toute la place est pour la Beauté.

In the darkness of our lives, there is not one place for Beauty. The whole place is for Beauty.

The underground appeared in this novel as the failure and reversal of Christianity.

You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.

The dishes that were meant to be hot were never quite as warm as those that were meant to be chilled.

Hope springs eternal. Just remember: so does evil. Sometimes they are impossible to tell apart.

The lady hasn't lost it yet—the sound of freedom. When she laughs, you can hear the wind in the trees and the splash of water hitting pavement. You can sense the gentle caress of rain on your face and how laughter sounds in the open air, all the things those of us in this dungeon can never feel.

Just as Diana Prince is never around when Wonder Woman shows up, Venus is either a Morning Star or an Evening Star, never both simultaneously.