Quotes About Duality

Of course, one may have a number of other halves," Nor said with a grin. "We have always felt sorry for those who are forced to be only one person, forever and ever until they die. My brother and I are Neither/Nor, my sister and I are Not/Nor, and on and on the combinations go, sharing dreams and labor and life. We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.

It is difficult to notice your faces beyond that, partly because of the dazzling red hair but mostly because there are two of you. You understand this when you are older, when someone brings too many gifts to a birthday party or too many bottles of good wine to a dinner party, and the presents and the wine are undervalued in their own abundance. You are indistinct, undervalued in your own abundance. Sometimes

book of life, every page have two sides.'" "The

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.

We weren't ourselves when we fell in love, and when we became ourselves – surprise! – we were poison. We complete each other in the nastiest, ugliest possible way.

Language such as "good" and "bad" and "I like" and "I don't like" divides the world into what you want and don't want. Then when life shows up in a way you don't like, you suffer. By wanting life to look a certain way, you cause your own suffering. The hero has seen how such dualities and desires create suffering and how suffering wouldn't exist without them.

Quizás esté mal, Eva, pero el Mal también es parte del conocimiento.

El hombre es uno y ninguno. Carga desde hace años con su rostro pegado al cráneo y su sombra cosida a los pies, y todavía no ha logrado comprender cuál de las dos cosas pesa más.

Sunt suspendat între cer ÅŸi p?mânt, prea greoi ca s? m? înalÅ£ spre stele ÅŸi prea eteric ca s? scormonesc în noroi.

I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive. Among men you seldom find the good with one standard and the shadow with another.

Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules, and nary a shade of grey.

It's just what you're stuck with, the lousy furniture you can't change. The educated me knows hell's nothing, a fiction I happened to inherit. The other me knows I'm going there. There must be a dozen mes these days, taking turns looking the other way." "It's the postmodern solution," I said. "Controlled multiple personality disorder. Pick a fiction and allocate it an aspect of yourself.

The Curse has a thing for contrast: frivolity one minute, homicide the next.

Everyone is my friend, everyone is my foe.

Ah! dou? suflete-s în mine! Cum se zbat În piept s? nu mai locuiasc? împreun?! Unul de lume strâns m? ?ine, încle?tat; cu voluptate, cel?lalt puternic c?tre cere?ti limanuri m? îndrum?.

Two souls alas! are dwelling in my breast

Mas tinha mesmo de ser assim, que aquilo que perfa a felicidade do homem também seja a fonte de sua miséria?

Ein Teil von jener Kraft, die stets das Böse will und stets das Gute schafft. -Goethe-

Deo snage sam koja vazda zeli da tvori zlo, a uvek dobro sazda.

everything in life is a good news/bad news story.

We human beings are paradoxes. We love the fruits of commitment, love, and order. Yet a dark side of us is often anticommitment, antilove, and antiorder. We would prefer to receive these things; we have to be taught and we have to deliberately choose to give these things. This is a fundamental testimony to the evil within.

The beast caged. Rather limiting for Mr Hyde.

To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.