Quotes About Duality

You are a chameleon, and now you are at your worst colour. Go home, or I shall hate you!

the negative often meant nothing more than the preface to the affirmative

An Elizabeth in brain and a Mary Stuart in spirit.

The curious double strands in Farfrae's thread of life - the commercial and the romantic - were very distinct at times. Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling.

The greater the sinner the greater the saint; it was not necessary to dive far into Christian history to discover that

He spoke fluently and unceasingly. He could in this way be one thing and seem another: for instance, he could speak of love and think of dinner; call on the husband to look at the wife; be eager to pay and intend to owe.

a day which had a summer face and a winter constitution

Tess had never before known a time in which the thread of her life was so distinctly twisted of two strands, positive pleasure and positive pain.

However, we are very apt to think extremes of people. I shouldn't wonder after all if it wasn't a little of both -- just between the two -- rather cruelly used and rather reserved.

He could in this way be one thing and seem another: for instance, he could speak of love and think of dinner; call on the husband to look at the wife; be eager to pay and intend to owe.

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

Mixed hungers crossed his face; it was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.

it was Krendler's nature to both appreciate Starling's leg and look for the hamstring.

there wasn't always much difference between the standfast and the man who ran. Even though presidents and colonels and preachers tried to tell you otherwise, the standfast and the runner were often the same man on different days or at a different hour.

I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.

Io sto tra due mondi, di cui nessuno e' il mio, e per questo la mia vita e' un po' difficile.

Benim ac?nas? ruhumu eÄŸitmek için ikiniz, OrtaçaÄŸdaki gibi, Tanr?yla Åžeytan gibi birbirinizle çat???rken o her zaman hakl? ç?ksa da seni daha çok seviyorum.

Spiritul este acela care-l deosebeÈ™te pe om de orice alt? form? de via?? organic? deoarece omul este fiinÈ›a prin excelen?? rupt? de natur?, c?reia i se opune în mod evident.

For the ones who are called saints by human opinion on earth may very well be devils, and their light may very well be darkness

As a matter of fact, it is often harder to manifest the good that is in us than the evil.

The madman runs to the East and his keeper runs to the East, both are running to the East. Their purposes differ.

Both threat and promise often come from the same political source.

Tao is obscured when men understand only one of a pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. (p. 42)

This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?