Quotes About Duality

We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.

There was not after all a single kind of strife, but on the earth there are two kinds: one of them a man might praise when he recognized her, but the other is blameworthy.

Our virtues make us; but virtues are not enough, we must deploy our vices at times.

Each action contains its opposite. Each action contains the shadow-trace of the choice not made, the seeds of infinite variation. Each choice, once made, trips contingencies, alternatives; each choice breeds its own universe.

In truth you cannot separate them, your public being and your private self.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart. . .

There's always going to be both: -magic & disaster- and we get to decide what to put our focus on.

Opposites are cures for opposites.

this ones who think of others and those who think of themselves, the unmistakable truth that these two cannot coexist!

We want everything, we want to be everything. We want to experience all the joys of good fortune and the full depths of suffering. We want the excitement of action and the calm of observation. We want the silence of the desert as well as the noise of the forum. Simultaneously we want to be the hermit´s thought and the voice of the people; we want to be both melody and harmony. Simultaneously! How could this be possible?

Every hero is the villain of his own story.

I can walk into someone's house, kiss their wife, sit down at their table, and eat their dinner. I can lift a passport at an airport, and in twenty minutes it will seem like it's mine. I can be a blackbird staring in the window. I can be a cat creeping along a ledge. I can go anywhere I want and do the worst things I can imagine, with nothing to ever connect me to those crimes. Today I look like me, but tomorrow I could look like you. I could be you.

She can't help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I'm not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

You're no killer. He has no idea what I am.

Si tú eres la enfermedad, supongo que no puedes ser también la cura.

If you are the sickness, I suppose you can't also be the cure

I only know how to be cruel or to laugh when I am discomposed.

I didn't understand the horror of being so powerful and so utterly powerless all at the same time.

After spending months living in the orderly dorms of Wallingford, where they give you a Saturday detention if your room doesn't pass semi-regular inspections, I feel the old conflicting sense of familiarity and disgust.

We all have things inside ourselves we can't kill,' I say, not sure which part of me would be better off dead: this monster self, or the normal one who wants nothing more than a little place on a little planet with his friends, the one who will have to live with being a killer.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, SONNET CXLVII

if you're the sickness, i suppose you can't also be the cure

Faeries make up for their inability to lie with a panoply of deceptions and cruelties.

I'm still your father.'' ''You're my father's murderer,'' I blurt out. ''I can be both,'' Madoc says, smiling, showing those teeth.