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“Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions.”

Wells Persons Enough Energy Love Is Emotion Doubt Theory Devil Opposites Treated Meaning Of Life Good Person Fickle Polar Opposites

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.”

Want Needs Humans Mean Emotion Adults Opposites Tension Cherish Adore Opposing Reconcile Conflicting Emotions Conflicting Ideas

Author:Stephen Fry

“Hate and love are very similar emotions. The opposite of love is you don't care.”

Care Hate Love Is Emotion Opposites And Love Don't Care Love And Hate

Author:Kanye West

“humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.”

Feelings Humor Levels Emotion Fashion Bears Birth Opposites Relation Rising Closest Turmoil Wellspring

Author:Constance Rourke

“To separate journalism and poetry, therefore-history and poetry-to set them up at opposite ends of the world of discourse, is to separate seeing from the feel of seeing, emotion from the acting of emotion, knowledge from the realization of knowledge.”

World Feels Ends Acting Emotion Seeing Opposites Journalism Realization Discourse End Of The World

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“The distinction between shame and guilt is very important, since these two emotions may tear a person in opposite directions. The wish to relieve guilt may motivate a confession, but the wish to avoid the humiliation of shame may prevent it.”

May Persons Two Important Wish Emotion Tears Opposites Shame Guilt Distinction Confession Humiliation Shame And Guilt

Author:Paul Ekman

“[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.”

Children Real Play Emotion Serious Amount Opposites Psychoanalysis

Book:Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works

Source: Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works

“The fact that I do place music at the end of my films is not to accentuate the emotion. It serves an opposite purpose which is to remove them from the emotional space and allow them to enter a space of thinking, because I believe that when the audience is watching the film they're watching it with their feelings.”

Thinking Believe Ends Facts Feelings Film Purpose I Believe Space Emotion Audience Emotional Opposites Remove Accentuate

Author:Asghar Farhadi

“There are things that make us choose, on certain days, on certain nights, the opposite of love, in all its variations. But I want to acknowledge that with love and hate it's not simply one or the other. It's at least two, three, four, five different emotions existing at once, side by side, a broad spectrum of things alive.”

Want Two Different Night Certain Hate Three Sides Emotion Five Four Alive Opposites Acknowledge Broads Spectrum Variation Love And Hate Different Emotions

Author:Jamaica Kincaid