Quotes About Duality

Ah, love. Why had Vidhata made its nature so complex? Why did one love conflict, so often, with another?

I'm like an old record--Be my guest is the signature song; Please go away, always on side B.

I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope.

London had always had this trick of living in two time signatures at once - the urgent and the always - each in earshot of the other.

This was always my trouble when I was learning to speak your language. Every word can defend itself. Just when you go to grab it, it can split into two separate meanings so the understanding closes on empty air. I admire you people. You are like sorcerers and you have made your language as safe as your money.

I realized that I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope. I realized I had killed myself back to life.

There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.

If humans are ever to understand one another, they will have to come to terms with the concept, and the reality, of relativity. In essence, that's what the Earthgame is about. They will have to see how things look compared to other things. Once you understand that nothing exists without its opposite, you understand nothing is good and nothing is evil, that opposites actually hold each other up.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.

I'm torn between maintaining you as an entity to write to and talking with you as a person.

this is a two-fold country, and, what's more, everyone in it is two-fold, one part possibility and the other its refutal

Manchmal, sagt Kleist - irgend etwas an dieser Frau entzieht ihm wie ein Magnet die angreifbarsten Geständnisse -, manchmal ist es mir unerträglich, daß die Natur den Menschen in Mann und Frau aufgespalten hat. Das meinen Sie nicht, Kleist. Sie meinen, daß in Ihnen selbst Mann und Frau einander feindlich gegenüberstehn. Wie auch in mir.

I wonder, not for the first time, if shame and pride are merely two sides of the same coin.

I wonder, not for the first time, if shame and pride are merely two sides of the same coin. In a

Like Janus, the press has presented two faces: one detrimental and one advantageous.

They say one thing and another thing and both at once;

I find it most remarkable that we who are so intimately involved in the battle between good and evil are even more involved with the shades of gray in between them.

We are multiple beings having a dubious experience

Alwyn's mother could not square her identity as a sexualized woman with that of being a mother

It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other he was excessive and unfeeling. He might show the most fatherly concern for a female secretary who had stabbed her toe but be utterly ice-cold when issuing orders which set thousands to their deaths.

First you try to find a reason, try to understand what you've done so wrong so you can be sure not to do it anymore. After that you look for signs of a Jekyll and Hyde situation, the good and the bad in a person sifted into separate compartments by some weird accident. Then, gradually, you realize that there isn't a reason, and it isn't two people you're dealing with, just one. The same one every time.

You feel you've seen a hundred of me. You know how my tiny mind works. But maybe it goes both ways.

Miranda nodded and her reflection nodded, so that was twice