“Condemned to exhaust the beautyof its captivity, it slithers awayin opposite directions at onceas if to escape its venomous memories.”

“Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?”

“Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.”

“He slept like an animal, well and lightly, faced in the opposite direction from that of a man; for a man going to sleep is about to escape into it while animals are prepared to escape out of it.”

“These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”