Quotes About Duality

You looking good. Devil's confusion. He lets me look good long as I feel bad. He looked at her and the word bad took on another meaning.

She is the laugh; I am the laughter.

They beat their children with one hand and stole for them with the other. The hands that felled trees also cut umbilical cords; the hands that wrung the necks of chickens and butchered hogs also nudged African violets into bloom; the arms that loaded sheaves, bales, and sacks rocked babies into sleep. They patted biscuits into flaky ovals of innocence—and shrouded the dead. They plowed all day and came home to nestle like plums under the limbs of their men.

The brothers approaching the cellar were once identical.

You see, dear—I think there are two types of people in the world. Those who divide the world up into two kinds of people... and those who don't.

What deep violence does the mind invent / As polar opposite to love. (In 'Hat Love').

What's funny about opposites be that wet and dry both has water, boy and girl be about people, Heaven and Hell be the places you go when you die. They all has something in common. So they an't completely different from each other the way people think. Having the one don't mean t'other be gone.

Cannot admit that darkness exists because humanity itself exists, and that to erase one, you erase the other.

I am the mask and the mask is me.

You live in the light, and then you become the night.

Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that what the virtue of wit contained was the vice of scorn.

Fascism, as Ortega y Gasset says, is always 'A and not A'.

I loved this stuff, bad stuff.

what you must understand is that the herald & the horror are the same.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

She was not a nice person, but she cleaned up the floor. She was not a nice person, but she bandaged my foot in a white piece of cloth, and gave us two of her own clean shirts to wear.

How many lived in the fake versions of their countries, in fake versions of other people's countries? Did their lives feel as unreal to them as his own did to him?

But even a perfect pear can harbor a worm within.

It's hard for me to see characters as villains... just heroes with competing agendas.

Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahead, and the death that comes pursuing from behind.... Once you are free at least from the death that comes pursuing you, you can relax and enjoy life as you go along.

Reality and the virtual space reflect each other. They correspond to each other.

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

As humans are at once both righteous and sinful, so human existence is at once both heartbreaking and hilarious.

Man 'knows', which is why he is always two : his life and his knowing.