Quotes About Duality

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided...

If he is going into management, he writes. If he is an engineer or architect why he paints or sculpts. He will straddle the line, aware up to the point of knowing he is getting the worst of both worlds, but never stopping to wonder why there should ever be a line, or even if there is a line at all.

Communists then, dopers now, tomorrow, who knew, maybe the faggots, so what, it was all the same beef wasn't it? Anybody looking like a normal American but living a secret life was always good for a pop if times got slow- easy and cost-effective, that was simple Law Enforcement 101.

Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out. Were there many such reference points, scattered through the world, perhaps only at nodes like this room which housed a transient population of the imperfect, the dissatisfied [...]

Down here everything was dark, but up there the gray conglomerate was being struck by the final light of day to an unanswerable brilliance.

You have to believe it and you hate it. I don't have to and I think it's beautiful.

For Dennis Rader, life was good—both of them.

On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously.

This elven face of mine is deceiving, for I've been cursed with an all-too-human heart." Ador

There's a point at which when I start to know a man well--this isn't true of women--I wonder whether there's something in him that's evil. Something that's pure and can't be touched. This quality of evil may be related to the quality of artistry, for an artist has the same characteristics.

Roses are red, violets are blue. Extend only one, but implement two.

You've got to breathe! And make the bridge between the top half of your body and the bottom. Between the woman in you who's sweet and tender, and the woman in you who's a bitch.

It's hardly unheard of for both good and evil to be aimed at the same target.

That would be all nice and simple, wouldn't it? Be good and go to heaven; be bad and go to hell. Black and white. Rules to live by, to keep everybody civilized. But life isn't simple, so I don't know why we expect death to be. What there is . . . is continued existence. Complex, multilayered, and unique to every individual. Just like life is.

Which of my feelings are real? Which of the me's is me? The wild, impulsive, chaotic, energetic, and crazy one? Or the shy, withdrawn, desperate, suicidal, doomed, and tired one? Probably a bit of both, hopefully much that is neither.

Anzu [to Atem]: Even if you are two hearts in the same body...It's your own heart you'll face! So stay honest to your heart!

everyone was a monster and everyone wore a mask to hide the fact.

Heaven Is An Orchard Though Its Roots Wind Down To Hell

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

within the same person described ... we have not one or even two but at least three distinct entities. 1. The old sin nature-the root cause of all sin. 2. The new divine nature-which is unable to sin. 3. The believer-who chooses which of the other two will be in control.

Kalbini ve akl?n? seksle bast?rarak bu mücadeleden kaç?nabilece?ini san?yorsun. Gerçek varl???ndan, seni usand?ran sorudan kaç?nabilmek için avc?y? seçtin. Gecenin en karanl?k an?nda, özünde, sen bir iyile?tirici misin yoksa avc? m?, benim doktorum musun yoksa infaz memurum mu?

Good and Evil are very hard to explain or understand. I'm sure that evil exists, but it is hard to isolate. Good and evil are intertwined and impossible to separate. They are not completely opposites and in fact are often one and the same.