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Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.

Javad Alizadeh, Iranian cartoonist, journalist and humorist

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Sweet it was in one sense, honey-sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voice, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensiveness, as one smells in blood.

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits—the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.

But I like it
Because it is bitter,
And because it is my heart.

Stephen Crane, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist

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[T]he food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

Bitter are the roots of study, but how sweet their fruit.

What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

Life is like that...sometimes you have to peel off the bitterness in order to get to the part that is sweet.

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind’s appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..

H. P. Lovecraft, American writer and editor (1890–1937)

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"Bitter?" said the barmaid and he nodded. What a strange thing to call a drink. Bitter. Aloes. Sorrow. For something that was supposed to make you feel happy.

Sophisticated foods are bittersweet (wine, beer, coffee, chocolate).

Addictive relationships are cooperative and competitive.

Work becomes flow at the limits of ability.

The flavor of life is on the edge.

This book is about the melancholic direction, which I call the “bittersweet”: a tendency to states of longing, poignancy, and sorrow; an acute awareness of passing time; and a curiously piercing joy at the beauty of the world. The bittersweet is also about the recognition that light and dark, birth and death — bitter and sweet — are forever paired. “Days of honey, days of onion,” as an Arabic proverb puts it.

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