Quotes About Duality

There are some roles that are more still and internal and emotional, and others that are more physical, which get you out of your mind for a while.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation—the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.

a man cannot win if he's at the same time a horse and a jockey.

The mouth prays to Buddha, but the heart is full of evil

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

You've got a good side?" "I do. I just don't use it too often. My bad side's so much more fun.

Empezaría a pensar que me enorgullecería más, si descubrir una verdad o hacer una cosa bella; yo me quedaría con las dos cosas, como si me pusiera dos trajes: un día uno de profesor de psicología y otro de literato.

Everything you say,' Geno said rather irritably, 'contradicts itself.' 'Of course it does,' the screech owl rejoined obscurely. 'Otherwise, how would anyone ever keep to the middle of the road?

I'm almost never serious, and I'm always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold-hearted. I'm like a collection of paradoxes.

Sensación de ser dos en uno sin que nadie posea a nadie.

A ver si te enteras de una vez, hijo: no hay una España. Hay dos. Y hasta que una de las dos Españas no acabe con la otra, la cosa seguirá igual.

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.

La vida es así, por un lado nos da y por el otro nos quita. A algunos por ambos lados les quita. Y a nadie por ambos lados le da.

Besides the neutral expression she wore when she was alone, Mrs. Freeman had two others, forward and reverse, that she used for all her human dealings. Her forward expression was steady and driving like the advance of a heavy truck.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

Car l'amour ce n'est pas seulement: souffrir ou faire souffrir. Cela peut aussi être les deux.

Las personas movidas por las mejores intenciones siempre son las que acaban convirtiéndose en monstruos.

I love Germany so much that I am glad there are two of them.

You're a peach full of poison, you know that?" Mosca snapped back, but could not quite keep a hint of admiration from her tone.

This was the hardest part. It was easier to be the witch, the harpy. Being human was dangerous.

What would have happened if Caverna had been torn by a civil war, the two opposed leaders housed in a single body?