Quotes About Duality

Jenny Diski lies here. But tells the truth over there",' I instructed. 'Also, I'd like a dove, a winged angel, an anchor and an open book, properly carved on a nice piece of granite.

When you are driving, you're outside and inside, moving and completely still, all at the same time. I think that's something.

Sometimes I feel like a writer, sometimes I just feel like a snitch.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about. "Please," Pasquale rasped to Tommaso. "Go." The

My double, seen from behind, explains something to me: that I'm me and also someone else, that I'm leaving and also staying. This realization momentarily jostles my melancholy, like a current that stirs the branches, that discomfits the leaves of a tree.

Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

At home I am a man, at work I am a machine.

One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.

I'm happiest on set because I'm not myself. I'm someone else. The moustache, the dinner jacket. It's not me. You're always this sort of double, and it's liberating. Imagine being stuck with yourself... all those doubts.

When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.

I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the same book. The Book I Should Write should be realistic, since I studied English Lit. It should be cultural. It should reflect where I am today. The Book I Wanted to Write would probably include flying women, magic, and all of that.

I find it beyond stunning that there is a school of thought or two out there that swears we are into solids and that solids are bad and liquids are good.

Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

Many times, I have been shocked and frightened by human beings. I have experienced delight and revulsion. I have sometimes wanted to forget what I heard, to return to a time when I lived in ignorance. More than once, however, I have seen the sublime in people and wanted to cry.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

For me, alcohol has this endless fascination that there's this substance that can enhance life so beautifully and destroy it so completely.

Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.

que réside sa faiblesse, est un monde unidimensionnel, qui ne comporte que deux termes opposés : nous et eux, ami et ennemi, courage et lâcheté, héros et traître, noir et blanc. Ce système de références convient bien à une situation orientée vers la mort mais non à celles de la vie. A

Ich beklage mich bitter darüber, dass Liebe und Hass so dicht beieinander liegen. Ach, ich beklage es, dass man nie wirklich weiß, ob man gehasst oder geliebt wird

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally be lethal arrows. Worst of all, at times they can be one or the other. They can even be both at once!

I don't know how it is in mathematics, but in life the best proof for something lies in its opposite.