Quotes About Duality

I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

I love London and Los Angeles equally. I was born and brought up London and then I went to Los Angeles as a teenager to stay with my sister Joan. So I feel I belong to both.

I'm a tiger when I want love, but I'm a snake if we disagree.

There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?

Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.

Love is to be two and at the same time one.

They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

His Good list outstripped the Evil list; Good may always preponderate in this method of reckoning.

It comes in black and blue, indecisive beige.

Had pretended to be Abbadon of the Dark, when always he had been working for the Light.

Mais tarde, muito mais tarde, aprendi que a alegria e o medo são exatamente a mesma coisa, uma apenas se transformava na outra pela ação, mas

I learned that the joy and the fear are the exact same things, the one merely transformed into the other by action

There is never but one pleasant side to this human life. Like the globe on which we turn, our own rapid rotation is but one day, and a part of this day cannot receive light, so that the other part will not be delivered into darkness.

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one which we preach, but do not practice, and another which we practice, but seldom preach.

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

Good and ill are one." "To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right." "The way up and the way down is one and the same." "God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger; but he takes various shapes, just as fire, when it is mingled with spices, is named according to the savour of each.

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

My whole family — well, for the most part — is like this. Spitting in a can, all spool-headed, one minute. Sleek and lovely and mesmerizing the next.