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Antipathy Quote by Dogen

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“Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.”

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ANTIPATHY, n. The sentiment inspired by one's friend's friend.

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“Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses…

Charlotte Brontë

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The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the…

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I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority.

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