Quotes About Duality

Hasta ese momento no tenía conciencia cabal de su doble personalidad, por una parte Diego de la Vega, elegante, melindroso, hipocondríaco, y por otra el Zorro, audaz, atrevido, juguetón. Suponía que en algún punto entremedio estaba su verdadero carácter, pero no sabía cómo era, si ninguno de los dos, o la suma de ambos.

Mi vida está hecha de contrastes, he aprendido a ver los dos lados de la moneda. En los momentos de más éxito no pierdo de vista que otros de gran dolor me aguardan en el camino, y cuando estoy sumida en la desgracia espero el sol que saldrá más adelante.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

The more time I spend working on 'Sekiro,' the deeper I sink into this zone of blood and gore and conflict. But if I want to get out of it, I can walk over to the other side of the studio and ease myself into a completely different feeling when I work on 'Deracine.'

A town that has no ceiling price, A town of double-talk; A town so big men name her twice, Like so: 'N'Yawk, N'Yawk.'

The bee that hath honey in her mouth hath a sting in her tail.

Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.

Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

I regard England as my wife and America as my mistress.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

What's joy to one is a nightmare to the other.

No pleasure without pain.

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lords, am on the side of the angels.

Saint abroad, and a devil at home.

There's something weird about the Scots. We are a troubled, slightly tortured race - the sense of the respectable outward character and, inside, the turmoil of something darker.

There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marvelous things and marvelous people who do despicable things.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.