Quotes About Duality

My life was split by two worlds, but he kept me whole.

As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

Surely life has taught you that a thing can be both beautiful and vile.

Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that.

Really, life is full of contradictions. Life is messy.

The thing I've learned in life is that basically good people can do some really horrific things, and basically bad people can do some really good things.

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.

I hear it said of somebody that he is leading a double life. I think to myself: Just two?

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.

..., twice two is four is not life, gentlemen, but the beginning of death.

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

He was a lively, likeable boy with a serious and almost morbid side to his nature.

has a knee-jerk tendency to avoid extremes as implausible, but 'fantasy' actively embraces them. It magnifies and clarifies the human condition.

Thus shadow owes its birth to light.

Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...

as the foot of the marble sink that was Jonathan's next destination. His sink. One of two.

as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure;

But childhood was not all good, nor were its lessons. Good came with the bad, as dark did with light and weakness with strength. Nothing was simple or pure; everyone had secrets. What

I can at least comfort myself with the idea that whatever Ive done Ive helped to nail a lie, and Im coming to think that lying is among the worst of all human failings. Next to actual killing. And experience has made us almost equally good at both of them. I have killed many people and seen many more killed on my orders, Jogajong said. It is what must be paid to buy what we want. What weve been told we want, by liars more skilled than ourselves.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Of that duality that makes us who we are, he is wholly evil. Duality? We are all two things in a way, are we not? Deep in the marrow. Angel and devil. Light and dark. The pull between the two is the active verb which energizes our lives.