All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power.
It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.
I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand. . . Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me. . . What an unattractive person La Sand is. . . Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.
You pay your money, you take your choice. I get the audience my language attracts and I lose the ones it repels.
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.
Nothing finite is true, is interesting, is worthy to fix my attention. All that is particular is exclusive, and all that is exclusive repels me.