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Quotes About Contradiction

But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.
~ Alice Hoffman
We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.
~ Jimmy Wales
The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
~ Jodi Picoult
It is easier to hate those we love, than love those whom we have hated.
~ Norm MacDonald
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell
~ Richard Barnfield
A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
~ James Mackintosh
On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in.
~ Kathy Acker
Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
~ Edward Abbey
If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is as a soldier that you make love and as a lover that you make war.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'm militantly anti-drug abuse but love everything Keith Richards and some other drug goofballs do.
~ Ted Nugent
But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love.
~ Virginia Woolf
They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
~ William Golding
Love can be the most dreadful disguise that hate assumes.
~ William March
Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.
~ William Shakespeare
The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.
~ Anne Tyler, Ladder of Years
I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
~ Olivia Holt
Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.
~ Danielle Steel
Exclusive love is a contradiction in itself.
~ Erich Fromm
One can fall in love and still hate.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
They were like two enemies in love with one another.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none.
~ Gustave Flaubert
The greatest pleasures of love are inseparable from its greatest pains: Love has the face of a goddess, but the talons of a lion.
~ Ivan Panin