Quotes About Duality

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

Russians alone are able to combine so many opposites in themselves at one and the same time.

The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time.

It was possible to feel superior to other people and feel like a misfit at the same time.

One realizes after a long time that, actually, we are contradictory, all of us.

The color red is associated with romance and blood, but not at the same time.

Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

debe insistirse continuamente en que «femenino» y «masculino» no son entidades en sí mismas; no son figuras arquetípicas de una diferenciación absoluta con campos de aplicación fijos y predeterminados. Son términos de una relación continua, que toman su significado el uno del otro: Por ejemplo, conteniendo y emergiendo, recibiendo y actuado, conservando y dinamizando; la base y su diferenciación, el todo y su parte.

Little bundle of contradictions

I'm awfully scared that everyone who knows me as I always am will discover that I have another side, a finer and better side. I'm afraid they'll laugh at me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental, not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously but it's only the lighthearted Anne that's used to it and can bear it; the deeper Anne is too frail for it.

I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to figure other stuff out first, like how to keep his neck from flopping all over the place and how to sit up.

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

We, too, are shadow and light. We are not supposed to know this, or be all these different facets of humanity, bright and dark. We are raised to be bright and shiny, but there is meaning in the acceptance of our dusky and dappled side, and also in defiance.

Do you think that we're wired this way? With the devil inside? Yeah, in the same way we're wired for God. But not to the same extent.

I was good and bad, but never wicked.

I am such a bad girl, she thought. Yet...