Quotes About Duality

We look to… the edges,' said Mistress Weatherwax. 'There's a lot of edges, more than people know. Between life and death, this world and the next, night and day, right and wrong… an' they need watchin'. We watch 'em, we guard the sum of things. And we never ask for any reward. That's important.

Contrary to popular belief, the wings of demons are the same as the wings of angels, although they're often better groomed.

There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.

It's Tchaikovsky's 'Another One Bites the Dust,'" said Crowley, closing his eyes as they went through Slough.

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

Can you be inside and outside at the same time? I think this is where I live. I think this is where most women live. I know this is where writers live. Inside to write. Outside to glean.

If one believes in the light, one has to believe in the darkness as well.

he had created a monster.

Bergždžiausias pasaulyje dalykas - bandyti tiksliai apib?dinti žmog?. Kiekvienas individas yra priešingybi? kamuolys, o juo žmogus gabesnis, juo daugiau jame prieštaravim?.

All concepts, including those of "unity" and of duality, are foreign to experience which can be described as non-conceptual.

I believe in joy, but I believe in the flip-side, agony.

I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don't think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven't ever felt the flip side of it.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.

Juxtaposition is interesting to me.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

By blood a king, in heart a clown.

I can give you the King's English and then I can take it to the street, but do both or do one and don't do one knowing only the street. That's going to hold you back because what comes out is going to impress people, and it will impress them negatively.

There's an element of fantasy in both 'Animal Kingdom' and 'Peaky Blinders' but they're both real in lots of ways.

When I'm in America, everyone thinks of me as the Asian girl. When I go to Korea, everyone thinks of me as an American.

I think it's common to want to label things as all good or all bad and what I'm finding is that every situation, person, event, has good and bad in it.

I felt betrayed and absolutely livid, but my body wasn't smart enough to know it. It had liked the feel of his hands, wanted more of it, wanted it now. It was almost like there were two of me, one who heartily approved of the mage and one who would have dearly loved to see him dead.

My sometimes friend, sometimes enemy, all the time pain in the ass.

Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world relevance to them.

You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I've learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you.