#repulsion

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion. ↗

— Edward Everett

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The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. ↗

— William Blake

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I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity. ↗

— Marion Cotillard

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