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Quotes About Duality

Åžunu anlay?n ki, as?l korkunç olan art?k köpek kalbi deÄŸil, insan kalbi ta??mas?. Yani doÄŸada var olanlar aras?nda en rezilini.
~ Mihail Bulgakov
You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Who art thou, then?" "Part of that Power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good." Goethe—Faust
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist?
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
What would your good do if evil didn't exist_
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
I have carried only a few ideas out of life's storm - and not one feeling. I have long lived according to the head, not the heart. I consider and analyze my personal passions and actions with a strict curiosity, but without sympathy. There are two people within me: one who lives in the full sense of the word, and the other who reasons and judges him.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.
~ Milan Kundera
You seem to be turning into the theme of all my paint­ings", she said. "The meeting of two worlds. A double exposure. Showing through the outline of Tomas the libertine, incredibly, the face of a romantic lover. Or, the other way, through a Tristan, always thinking of his Tereza, I see the beautiful, betrayed world of the libertine.
~ Milan Kundera
Her life was split. Both day and night were competing for her.
~ Milan Kundera
Meni se, me?utim, ?ini da umjesto zidova svuda vidim samo kulise. A razaranje kulisa stvar je dobra i pravedna.
~ Milan Kundera
he was happier with Sabina the invisible goddess than the Sabina who had accompanied him throughout the world and whose love he constantly feared losing.
~ Milan Kundera
When the north pole comes so close as to touch the south pole, the earth disappears and man finds himself in a void that makes his head spin and beckons him to fall.
~ Milan Kundera
We live in two different dimensions, you and I.
~ Milan Kundera
Sería tan sencillo encontrar la calma en el mundo de la imaginación. Pero yo siempre he tratado de vivir en los dos mundos al mismo tiempo y no abandonar uno de ellos por culpa del otro.
~ Milan Kundera
Between the whores' world and God's world, like a river dividing two empires, stretches an intense smell of urine.
~ Milan Kundera
Teresa y Sabina representaban los dos polos de su vida, dos polos lejanos, irreconciliables, y sin embargo ambos hermosos.
~ Milan Kundera
Aduh, Jean-Marc, kamu bagaimana sih? Aku tidak pernah ketawa. Jangan lupa, aku punya dua wajah yang berbeda. Aku sudah tahu bagaimana cara mendapat kesenangan dan kenyataan itu, tapi bermuka dua tetap tidak gampang. Dituntut kerja keras, perlu disiplin!
~ Milan Kundera
Sólo una cosa es segura: la contradicción entre peso y levedad es la más misteriosa y equívoca de todas las contradicciones.
~ Milan Kundera
He was half of something. A strong, beautiful, talented half of something that was, perhaps, even stronger, greater and more beautiful than he. He was, then, the magical half of something magnificent and unfathomable. She was a complete whole. A small, disoriented, not very strong or harmonius whole, but a whole all the same.
~ Milorad Pavi?
On je bio polovina ne?ega. Snažna, lepa i darovita polovina ne?ega, što je možda bilo još snažnije, ve?e i lepše od njega. Bio je, dakle, ?arobna polovina ne?ega veli?anstvenog i nedoku?ivog. A ona, ona je bila potpuna celina. Mala, dezorijentisana, ne mnogo snažna ni skladna celina, ali celina.
~ Milorad Pavi?
Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.
~ Plautus
I love Shakespeare. In Shakespeare, tragedy is not just something that's bad. It's something that could be good and is bad.
~ Rafe Esquith
It is not that I love contradictions: life is contradictory. Existence itself is possible only through contradictions.
~ Rajneesh
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.
~ Robert Browning