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Quotes About Duality

You have the white knight syndrome in spades," she murmured. "Don't kid yourself, baby, there's nothing white knight about me.
~ Christine Feehan
Did you kidnap me or rescue me?" Strong white teeth gleamed at her, a predator's smile, a man's amusement. "Perhaps a little of both.
~ Christine Feehan
I would have found you. There was complete confidence in his infuriating, beautiful voice. You know I would have found you. Then there will be a battle between us. Now there was a smoky edge to his laughter. There has never been a war to fight between us, there never will be. We are two halves of the same whole.
~ Christine Feehan
Our males are of the darkness. Without our women, the other half of ourselves to provide the light, we become truly the vampires of the human legends.
~ Christine Feehan
I wouldn't like to find out my GP was messing about with black magic. It would be like discovering that your bank manager was also a stand-up comic.
~ Christopher Fowler
The most intense wars are civil wars, just as the most vivid and rending personal conflicts are internal ones, and what I hope to do now is give some idea of what it is like to fight on two fronts at once, to try and keep opposing ideas alive in the same mind, even occasionally to show two faces at the same time.
~ Christopher Hitchens
George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to remain at cross-purposes, is in itself a kind of intimacy.
~ Christopher Isherwood
A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.
~ Christopher Pike
They dwell in my light, while I dwell in unbearable darkness, the source of that light.
~ Umberto Eco
the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.
~ Umberto Eco
As Clark Kent I take care of misunderstood young geniuses; as Superman I punish justly misunderstood old geniuses. I
~ Umberto Eco
Cuando hablo con Ubertino me da la impresión de que el infierno es el paraíso visto desde la otra parte. No
~ Umberto Eco
hell is heaven seen from the other side.
~ Umberto Eco
Piamonte... Acerqué la foto y leí la dedicatoria. Decía: «Porque yo soy la primera y la última. Yo soy la honrada y la odiada. Yo soy la prostituta y la santa. Sophia.»
~ Umberto Eco
Somos nós que, diante dos opostos, acreditamos, conforme o nosso desejo, e a nossa paixão, que um deles seja o bem e o outro o mal.
~ Umberto Eco
There comes a time when one has to make up one's mind and choose which side one is on. The catoptric universe is a reality which can give the impression of virtuality, whereas the semiotic universe is a virtuality which can give the impression of reality.
~ Umberto Eco
Ya te he dicho que el límite entre el veneno y la medicina es bastante tenue, los griegos usaban la misma palabra, pharmacon, para referirse a los dos.
~ Umberto Eco
There are always two sides to a story.
~ Una McCormack
He smiled gently, being sorry for her. "Mother dear, I am one of those unlucky people who have to stand in the middle and get the brickbats from both sides. I see the good in both and I see the evil. But if you point that out the fanatics on both sides want to kill you.
~ Upton Sinclair
She'd cook like an angel and fuck like a whore
~ Val McDermid
love being like a lump of coal: hot, it burns you; cold, it makes you dirty.
~ Vasily Grossman
You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.
~ Victor Hugo
Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
~ Victor Hugo
by making himself a priest made himself a demon.
~ Victor Hugo