Quotes About Duality

Lo que sé es esto: nadie lo consigue todo. Y nosotras las inmigrantes lo sabemos mejor que nadie. Tienes siempre un pie en cada sitio. Nunca puedes ser feliz del todo porque cuando marchas te partes en dos y dondequiera que vayas una mitad está siempre llamando a la otra. Ese es el precio, Louisa. El precio a pagar por quienes somos. Tomó un sorbo de su vaso y

I know this - nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.

carriage. "I know this—nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other. This is our price, Louisa. This is the cost of who we are.

Most beautiful place on earth, and the most brutal. Sometimes I think God wanted to show us all His ways at once.

Kentucky, huh? Most beautiful place on earth, and the most brutal. Sometimes I think God wanted to show us all His ways at once.

And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other.

I know this—nobody gets everything. And we immigrants know this more than anyone. You always have one foot in two places. You can never be truly happy because, from the moment you leave, you are two selves, and wherever you are one half of you is always calling to the other. This is our price, Louisa. This is the cost of who we are.

But we know that people are complicated and have a mixture of flaws and talents and sins. So why do we pretend that we don't?

Keista švytuokl? žmogus. Atrodo, kiek išsimeti žv?rin, tiek sugr?žti žmogun. Kartais pamanau: net kad Diev? pajustum, reikia pirmiau b?ti geru velniu. Po moment?, kada neju?iom pasileidi, ištirpsti kurion nors padugn?n - tokiu ryškumu stojas prieš akis priešingyb? - švytuokl? jau kitoj pus?j.

life only starts to make sense when you realize that sometimes - often - all the time - two completely contradictory ideas can be true. Everything that led up to you was wrong. Therefore, you should not have been born. But everything about you is right: you had to be born. You were inevitable.

If only it were so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.23

We humans have a dual nature—we are selfish primates who long to be a part of something larger and nobler than ourselves. We are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee. If you take that claim metaphorically, then the groupish and hivish things that people do will make a lot more sense. It's almost as though there's a switch in our heads that activates our hivish potential when conditions are just right.

a Jew had to have two synagogues. One that he went to, one that he rejected. The Butcher's Theater

I'm tightly wound. I'm a loose cannon. Both - I'm a tightly wound loose cannon, a tight loose.

It's hard to imagine two personalities less alike than the pair who shared Ulysses Maxwell's mind. Where Lyssy was sunny and outgoing, as friendly and disingenuous as a puppy dog, Max was brooding and saturnine, with a sardonic wit and the compassion of a starving alley cat—if they hadn't occupied the same body, he'd have strangled the cheerful little bastard years ago.

It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)

She's her?' - Lucy 'Exactly. Penelope Fittes is Marissa Fittes. They're one and the same person.' - The Skull

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

He was white in bold seas, ans black in continents...

Estimo al amante que gime de placer y desprecio al hipócrita que murmura una plegaria. ¿Serias capaz de renunciar al bálsamo de la vida por temor al Juicio Final?

Era estúpido concebir la vida en términos de blanco o negro: todos éramos víctimas en un momento y verdugos en otro.

Hay un repudio generalizado a la gente que lleva una doble vida. Pero si la doble vida significa disfrutar el doble, tener simultáneamente dos ángulos para observar la existencia, ¿en nombre de qué se atreven a condenarla?

But it was useless to try to explain him in terms of Good and Evil. They were no more than baroque abstractions. Good Business and Bad Business were the elements of the new theology. Dimitrios was not evil. He was logical and consistent; as logical and consistent in the European jungle as the poison gas called Lewisite and the shattered bodies of children killed in the bombardment of an open town.