Quotes About Duality

joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Was a mirror that existed only in a mirror not just as real as its original? It fulfilled its role just as well as its counterpart - it reflected. Merle couldn't think of anything else that was able to do this: to do something without itself being. For the first time, she asked herself whether all mirrors were not always magic mirrors. "Mirrors can see," Arcimboldo had said. Now she believed him.

If there is a "problem of evil", there is also a "problem of good.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you.

All right, don't scoff, mock or disbelieve: we live in mortal fear of not-quite-twins.

In my crazy world, above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth.

Happiness and misery are two sides of the very same coin. To seek one is to seek the other.

It's funny,' Rado says, 'I can only be Bulgarian when I'm in France. Here, I'm semi-French. Everything is funny and bizarre, and I laugh like someone watching a Beckett play. Except I am a Frenchman with Bulgarian memories. […] But I'll never be one of them. Ah, the filthy French!

In 'Nach... ', I go all out, but 'Saraswati... ' is an introvert character. The two things are totally opposite.

I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing classical guitar recitals, and people said, 'You know, you can't really do both things.' My intuition told me they were wrong. Somehow, what was interesting about me was that I had those two things in my life.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

I look Italian, but I act Irish.

When I'm acting in TV or movies, I'm a character. But when I'm doing music, I'm Trevor Jackson.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second.

Being 'Johnny' was almost like an out of body experience. I thought he was just a character that I'd created and could quite easily step away from, but it was much more difficult than that.

Heaven and earth! How is it that bodies join but never meet?

When I joined 'Kumkum,' I was excited because the character had grey shades.

A heart of fire in a shell of ice.

Faced with the numbering logic of neoliberal regimes, literature offers an intervention in order to consider identity and voice, to consider representation in both the political and artistic sense of the term... [Literature and art] cultivate tension between an unresolved past and present, between invisibility and exposure, showing the dualities of face and mask that leave their trace on identitarian struggles today.

Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.

vinegar of the interrogator with the oil of a flirt

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.