Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash. Louis Aragon
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. John Dryden
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. Robert Southey
When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay. Octave Mirbeau
