#opposite

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. ↗

— Plato

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#burden #calm #disposition #equally #feel

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. ↗

— Mark Rothko

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#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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#always #anyone #between #cannot #comes