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• Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Spiritual, Blessed, Adversity

  "Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems".

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• Look at your life in contrast with the magnitude of creation, space and time. Your life becomes insignificant. Ego disappears.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Space, Ego, Looks

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• What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.

  Marc Chagall

  Mean, Eye, Psychics

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• I'm interested in creating a space through color contrasts, rather than by simple shadows of light and dark.

  August Macke

  Dark, Simple, Light

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• Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece - by thought, choice, courage, and determination.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Determination, Character, Gay

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• The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

  Edward T. Hall

  Differences, Vitality, Interest In Life

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• Contrast is the dramatist's method.

  Lord Dunsany

  Method

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• I try to contrast; life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

  Gianni Versace

  Change, Trying, Today

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Winter, Weather

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• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners from the texture of existence that surrounds you. The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech

  Flannery O'Connor

  Two, Southern, Quality

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• When you’re living by default, you’re automatically reacting to life in habitual ways, many of which may be limiting you and your life. In contrast, living deliberately means making more conscious and constructive life choices. When you’re living deliberately, you’re living from a position of responsibility; you’re making choices with greater awareness. You’re taken yourself off autopilot, so you’re better prepared to align your actions with the results you want to achieve.

  Lauren Mackler

  Taken, Mean, Responsibility

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• As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Views, Sublime

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12464, Delphi Classics

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• Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth.

  Marcel Proust

  Errors, Triumph, Force

  Marcel Proust (2012). “Swann's Way”, p.70, Courier Corporation

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• It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest.

  Heraclitus

  Evil, Disease, Hunger

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• Someone has to die in order that the rest of should value life more. It's contrast.

  Nicole Kidman

  Death, Order, Dying

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• Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.

  William Shakespeare

  Grace, Meals, Contempt

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.93, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Perception, Body

  Samuel Johnson, William Page (1860). “Life and Writings”, p.120

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• The contrast between the 1970's and today is very marked.

  Bill Vaughan

  Today

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• The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.

  Sigmund Freud

  Passion, Ego, Sanity

  Sigmund Freud (1952). “Major Works”

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• In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

  Richard Wagner

  Karma, Views, Reincarnation

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• doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

  Kathryn Schulz

  Skills, Doubt, Instinct

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• In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

  Hannah Arendt

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Character

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.241, University of Chicago Press

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• Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.

  William Cowper

  Lines, May, Strange

  William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1836). “The Works of William Cowper: Life and works of Cowper, by R. Southey”, p.39

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• Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Men, Generosity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.200

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