I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the …

Anne Lamott
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I used to think that paired opposites were a given, that love was the opposite of hate, right the opposite of wrong. But now I think we sometimes buy into these concepts because it is so much easier to embrace absolutes than to suffer reality. I don't think anything is the opposite of love. Reality is unforgivingly complex. ✨ Anne Lamott (2007). Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, p.104, Anchor
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