Quotes About Duality

There's a duality in every man and every woman.

It's such a difficult lesson to understand that someone can be wrong in theory and yet right in practice--because we want the world to be black and white, right and wrong, us and them.

I think I am a better ghost than I am a human being.

siamo due liuti di cui l'uno ripete spontaneo e un po' confusamente i suoni toccati sulle corde dell'altro. Egli

But your eyes were bequeathed to me— As anathema And a blessing.

It's a poor blaster that doesn't point both ways.

A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.

If in the revealing light of some moment of cataclysm you were to meet your double, not dressed in its worldly glad-rags, not armed with that buckler of excuses which conventional hypocrisy uses to cover our secret wishes, but in all its moral nakedness, showing its tendencies and urges, its pitiless cunning and its cowardice, are you certain that you would recognize it?

Even in warmest glow how cold my shadow

Take this single tree. They could cut it down and make half of it into an incense tray, decorate it with lacquer set with gold or silver filigree, and set it in an alcove of an aristocrat or man of high rank as a tasteful ornament. The other half they could make into wooden clogs for stepping through the mud. When you look at the two different shapes, one is admired while the other is considered mean, but they're the same in terms of the cutting down of a living tree.

The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.

To write, for example, a crime that is horrible but which somehow 'resembles' the butterfly, which would be light and fine like the butterfly. I could also describe the butterfly, but bearing in mind the horrible scene of a crime, so that the butterfly would become something frightful.

Gerçek ?u ki gündüzün ?????nda, bu yay?lm??, soluk, hemen hemen gölgesiz ayd?nl?kta geceninkinden de daha koyu bir karanl?k buluyorum.

In short, what you are doing is very beautiful but grammatically it doesn't change a thing. At the moment when you most appear to be a united voi, a second person plural, you are two tu's, more separate and circumscribed than before.

KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.

Perché ogni scelta ha un rovescio cioè una rinuncia, e così non c'è differenza tra l'atto di scegliere e l'atto di rinunciare.

only by having a clear idea what virtue is can I practice evil with a light heart.

O bella! Questo suddito qui che c'è ma non sa d'esserci e quel mio paladino là che sa d'esserci e invece non c'è. Fanno un bel paio, ve lo dico io!

Bütün öykülerin ana fikrinin iki çehresi vard?r: hayat?n devam?; ölümün kaç?n?lmazl???.

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Anyone who believes in the power of God and the power of Satan can surely not be viewed as a pure monotheist.

Earth-Sky…Day-Night…Sound-Silence…Dark-Light…Balance!

Earth-Sky…Quiet-Sound…Dark-Light…Up-Down…Balance!