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Quotes About Duality

We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
~ Tom Stoppard
I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find...
~ Tom Waits
These church-goers," Gabriel felt obliged to fill the silence, "they talk about respect, and love and peace and all that jazz, and the minute they're out of that church, they're just as mean and selfish as they were before. It's as if going to church gives them the right to act like, well... like assholes.
~ Tomson Highway
The limits of binary thinking are spooky enough
~ Toni Cade Bambara
As long as you remember that fighting evil doesn't necessarily make you good! Good and evil are each other's enemies, but they are often found close together.
~ Unknown
chasing someone and being chased at the same time. You look in both directions at once.
~ Tony Abbott
Sweet pulp and sour skin - Or was it sweet outside, and sour within?
~ Tony Harrison
all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.;
~ Tony Parsons
None of us are this light and dark fantasy. What's dark to you may be light to me and vice versa.
~ Tori Amos
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare
~ Tori Amos
When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
~ Tori Amos
When looking in my looking glass I spied a trusted face. Alas, Not to be taken for him am I. Beware, therefore, the Gemini.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Machig merged the two into a single word, god-demon, indicating that gods and demons are two sides of the same coin, that our hopes and fears are inextricably locked together.
~ Unknown
Gods can easily become demons and vice versa. For example, our lover might go from being a god to being a demon and back again. When she or he is doing what we want, we experience a god. When he or she brings up our fears, we see a demon. In a dysfunctional relationship, we cling with longing to the god even though the demon is what we are usually confronted with.
~ Unknown
It's because you're half NightWing.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
I have the feeling you are primarily two people,one of which should be killed.
~ Paul Bowles
his behavior there was a perfect balance between gentleness and violence that gave her particular delight.
~ Paul Bowles
Le mal même comporte son bien qu'il ne faut pas laisser perdre
~ Paul Claudel
If I've learned one thing, it's that the unfortunate thing about life is that everything's mixed. There's no absolute good and there's no absolute evil. There's just a lot of confusion.
~ Unknown
During the day the Mexican towns are tranquil enough; after dark, not so much.
~ Paul Theroux
After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
~ Paulo Coelho
I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.
~ Paulo Coelho
So you see, Good and Evil have the same face; it all depends on when they cross the path of each individual human being.
~ Paulo Coelho
God hides the fires of hell within paradise.
~ Paulo Coelho