Quotes About Duality

A marriage made in heaven—or in my case, hell.

For remember always the maxim: He who would know right must first know wrong!

He who would know right must first know wrong!

We too often laughed at the same time to be a whore and a lonely guy.

Why, you'll be 'changed, m'dear. We'll just swap you for a human child who'll make a good servant to the Band. Half Humans never work out 'mongst the Folk. No, never do." "But--I'm half Folk too... What if I never work out 'mongst the humans?" "Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.

Ese resol naranja de pájaros y jaulas. Ese momento casi hipnótico de desajuste cronológico en que dos mundos paralelos se superponen y por un instante se cruzan, sin reconocerse, inconsolables ambos, el primer empleado del día llevando una tartera y el último juerguista de la noche llevando una rosa teñida.

Un sangue-misto di rado si trova contento in compagnia: c'è sempre qualcosa che gli fa ombra , ma in realtà è lui che si fa ombra da se stesso, come il ladro e il tesoro, che si fanno ombra uno con l'altro

alone. A mixed-blood is seldom content in company: there's always something that casts a shadow on him, but in reality it's he who casts a shadow, like the thief and the treasure, which cast a shadow on one another.

She's no angel. He's no saint.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.

Toti oamenii cauta placerea-afirmatia e adevarata,cu conditia sa adaugam ca sunt si unii care cauta durerea si ca aceea e tot o cautare a placerii.E hedonismul pe dos.

Due nemici sono lo stesso uomo dimezzato.

Deux ennemis, c'est un même homme divisé.

Two enemies—the same man divided.

Yet evil, the real evil, is behind, not ahead of us.

I am both wound and knife"—that is our absolute, our eternity.

man is double…There are two beings in him: an individual being which has its foundation in the organism and the circle of whose activities is therefore strictly limited, and a social being which represents the highest reality in the intellectual and moral order that we can know by observation – I mean society.

No two characters could, indeed, be found more opposite than the open, eager, buoyant poet, and the dark, threatening, unbelieving critic.

Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbour, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget.

But a disguise could go too far. Catching sight of myself in the broken windows of the gatehouse, I loosened the knot of my tie. I was still unsure what role I was playing.