Quotes About Duality

No one knows what it means to be born and to live on the brink, between two worlds....to love and hate both, to hesitate and waver all one's life. To have two homelands and yet have none. To be everywhere at home and to remain forever a stranger. In short, to be torn on a rack, but as both victim and torturer at once.

I behave in some ways like a lover - I undress her, I bathe her, I stroke her, I sleep beside her - but I might equally well tie her to a chair and beat her, it would be no less intimate.

Life and death oppose each other, yes, but it is only in their opposition that either can exist at all. There is no death without life, and no life without death.

angled, straddled

We partake of the ideal but we also make poo.

le viene una imagen de los partidos de fútbol del parque: el niño, cabizbajo y con los puños apretados, corriendo y corriendo como una fuerza irresistible. ¿Por qué, por qué, por qué, si está tan lleno de vida —de esta vida, la vida presente— le interesa tanto la otra?

Unos días se siente feliz, incluso privilegiado, por vivir con una mujer bella, o al menos por no vivir solo. Otros días se siente de otro modo. ¿Qué es verdad: la felicidad, la infelicidad o un punto medio entre una y otra?

Quelque chose brûle en moi. J'attends et je n'attends pas. C'est peut-être dans cette rupture, dans cet instant, entre les deux pulsions, l'une qui va vers l'infini du oui, l'autre vers l'infini du non, qu'est le lieu de la vie.

United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.

How'm I doin'? Jim asked in his own voice—hey, he could talk out of the bastard's mouth, too. Across the way, Adrian shrugged. Pretty damn good—I can't sense you. But I gotta ask—the pair of you want a cigarette? Or are you going for a twofer?

Because this is what shall be, the light and the dark together, two halves making a whole.

If anyone ever wanted to sense the infinity of time and existence, all they had to do was look at the night sky and feel their precious dead staring back at them. It was the great duality of union and separation.

Beneath the wardrobe of a gentlemale, he had the soul of vengeance and not just a little street in him.

Esto es lo que debe ser, la luz y la oscuridad juntas, dos mitades formando una unidad.

There was great hunger and rough dominance, but all of that was mediated by a wellspring of consideration and caring. It was the yin and the yang of sex, the grabbing and the caressing, the biting and the kissing, the pushing down and the cradling.

Se qualcun altro avesse voluto percepire il senso di infinito del tempo e dell'esistenza, quello che doveva fare era guardare il cielo notturno e sentire i propri cari che ricambiavano lo sguardo. Era la grande dualità dell'unione e della separazione.

Reality is like a coin. It has a front and a back, and you can only see one side at a time.

Se qualcun altro avesse voluto percepire il senso di infinito del tempo e dell'esistenza, quello che doveva fare era guardare il cielo notturno e sentire i propri cari che ricambiavano lo sguardo. Era la grande dualità dell'unione e della separazione.

Good and bad have never been more relative terms than when applied to the likes of you. But I agree with her. To me, you have always been a hero.

Se qualcun altro avesse voluto percepire il senso di infinito del tempo e dell'esistenza, quello che doveva fare era guardare il cielo notturno e sentire i propri cari che ricambiavano lo sguardo. Era la grande dualità dell'unione e della separazione. Tratto da Le Ombre di J.R.Ward

But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

a choleric, red-faced, pudgy hater of everything, who could turn on the warmest and most charming smile in the world when real life confronted him sweetly in the night.