"All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves."

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Source : Eli Siegel (1968). “James and the children: a consideration of Henry James's The turn of the screw”, Definition Pr

Eli Siegel

#Opposites Quotes

“In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.”
“If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.”
“Anything thatâ€™s too safe is not action.”
“I always remembered that when I saw people get married they got on a rocketship and went to Planet Happiness, Population: Them.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview: Director Marc Webb on (500) DAYS OF SUMMER". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 16, 2009.
“The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica. He didn't invent it, he just put it all in one package. You get twelve fat books there sitting in any library. Whereas... I think if Joshi thinks [H.P.] Lovecraft was doing anything like that, just throwing together all this stuff to form a kind of anti-mythology, that's where I would disagree with him.”
“I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.”

Source : Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.
“When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Â Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices. Â You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be Â Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality. Â They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.”

Source : "Loners". www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2005.
“Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.”

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