If
"If freckles were lovely, and day was night,
And measles were nice and a lie warn't a lie,
Life would be delight,--
But things couldn't go right
For in such a sad plight
I wouldn't be I.
If earth was heaven and now was hence,
And past was present, and false was true,
There might be some sense
But I'd be in suspense
For on such a pretense
You wouldn't be you.
If fear was plucky, and globes were square,
And dirt was cleanly and tears were glee
Things would seem fair,--
Yet they'd all despair,
For if here was there
We wouldn't be we.
Tag: reality acceptance identity opposites contradictions if poetry-quotes
I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
Antonio TabucchiTag: contradictions eccentrics maladjusted-people
Double standards are inspiration to men of letters, but they are apt to be fatal to politicians.
Henry AdamsTag: paradox contradictions
Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.
G.K. ChestertonTag: balance contradictions contention
I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to simplify my life into a simple bare thing. And other times I want to complicate it so thoroughly that everything I touch will become bound in some way to me. I've become quite aware of my contradictions, but there's no true resolution in that.
David LevithanTag: life contradictions david-levithan are-we-there-yet
People are... Full of contradictions. They're lonely. And then they're not. They're missed. And then they're not.
Kou YonedaTag: people lonely missing contradictions
I'm an alien in my own world, a writer without words, a musician without a piano, a magician without a wand. I am fooled by infinite words that rush in my blood, yet imprisoned by the very thoughts of silence. I'm a gray green fallow leaf on trees and abandoned on the streets, a never-ending spring season and an eternal autumn. I'm the golden of the sun and the silver of the moon, the fog of dawn and the amber of dusk. I'm the white and the red flag , the obedient and the rebel. I am the coward in the brave, and the child in the man. I am, but a writer.
Nema Al-ArabyTag: suffering writer contradictions
Brainstorm and make impossible possible. Make contradictions realistic. As if a contradiction is the other name of impossibility? Or simply impossible when contradicted becomes possible.
Priyavrat TharejaTag: impossible contradictions part-42
The dream has a very striking way of dealing with the category of opposites and contradictions. This is simply disregarded. To the dream 'No' does not seem to exist. In particular, it prefers to draw opposites together into a unity or to represent them as one. Indeed, it also takes the liberty of representing some random element by its wished-for opposite, so that at first one cannot tell which of the possible poles is meant positively or negatively in the dream-thoughts.
Sigmund FreudTag: dreams opposites contradictions 1899 joyce-crick the-dream-work
Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.
OtsuichiTag: love parents world humanity children death human-nature insight resentment gratitude epiphany parents-and-children contradictions contradictory spots sunny love-and-loss love-and-death
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