"The Opposite of Love is not hate,..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power
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“One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.”
“If things are real, they're there all the time.”
“But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.”
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“Don't come crawlin' to a man for love-he likes to get a run for his money.”
“Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate, to feel enraged. It is like a wound of the heart; the type of wounds that cannot go away with a kiss or a hug. The only thing that can make this great pain go away is love and compassion, another human heart to pull them out of this hell.”
“Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.”
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“It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.”
“You can't fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn't necessary.”
“In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.”