"I shall speak of ...how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another.... Of the revulsion that follows one insight and procedes the next..... Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin."
2006-11-27 06:21:35 · 4 answers · asked by Ann C 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
You can not have one extreme without the other. Great Good is recognized because of great evil, Love does not exist without hate, happiness does not exist without sadness.
2006-11-27 06:25:35 · answer #1 · answered by fancyname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that you cannot have one without the other. That each of them are never too far away from the other and utopia can turn into melancholy with just a turn of a coin. That happiness and sadness feed off of each other and are always either have a lot or a little of each.
2006-11-27 06:29:14 · answer #2 · answered by Caitlin 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Things that complete each other, one opposite cannot live without the other. Good cannot be good unless there is bad to make it look good.
:)
2006-11-27 06:29:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
how we can't conceive something without it's opposite. that the opposite of something makes another possible and that they are united by their very being
2006-11-27 09:22:05 · answer #4 · answered by alpha mutt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋