Sunday, June 7, 2009

quotable contradictions

"Nothing poisons love more than honesty.
If love lasts until the day we die,
We will live without showing our real
self
To our beloved until the day we die.
Love makes us more beautiful and
distorts us.
Love takes our impulse to lie to an
extreme."  

"Kneeling in surrender to great misfortunes Is far easier  
Than struggling against small ones."  

"Life Sometimes makes us choose evil
Willingly,  
Inevitably. 
We have to live hand in hand with contradiction."  

"Being deprived of the chance  
To discover life's deepest secrets  
Is a terrible thing 
(If I may say so). 
It is the misery of a patient on a
special diet 
Who has to eat the same thing, 
Every day, 
Day in, day out, 
For his entire life."  

from Contradictions, by Yang Gui-Ja

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