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1 " As contraries are known by contraries, so is the delights of presence best known by the torments of absence. "
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2 " …on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries. "
― Louisa May Alcott , Little Women
3 " Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial; the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade. But do not pity them overly, it is your own death and your soul's death that they work by their deception. "
― R.A. Lafferty
4 " Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. "
― William Blake , The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: In Full Color
