Quotes About Duality

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Edgar Allan Poe widzia? kruka jako starego, brzydkiego, z?owrogiego ptaka. W zachodniej literaturze wiele jest takich negatywnych odniesie?. Jednak z symbolami jest tak, jak z innymi rzeczami w ?yciu cz?owieka: co dla jednego jest zbawieniem, dla drugiego mo?e by? gwo?dziem do trumny.

Most cats, when they are Out want to be In, and vice versa, and often simultaneously.

Waarom moet ieder mens geschokt en geslingerd worden tussen een wereld hier, een wereld van zavel en cement, bloed, zenuwen, telefoonpalen en zonde, mensen die geboren worden en mensen die sterven, en een andere wereld die in onze gedachten spookt zonder te weten of zoiets bestaat, bestaan heeft of ooit zal komen?

Er zijn twee soorten van mensen in de wereld. De ene was van een hard en verpletterend materiaal, de andere integendeel van een doorschijnender en meer sprokkere substantie.

I wonder what they'd do if they knew the truth about my high life and my low life and all the demons in between.

He was the wolf, and she was the rational hare, forgiving and accepting him as he was.

Armand Gamache had seen the worst. But he'd also seen the best. Often in the same person.

Despite himself, Beauvoir laughed. "There is strong shadow where there is much light.

near enemy. It's a psychological concept. Two emotions that look the same but are actually opposites. The one parades as the other, is mistaken for the other, but one is healthy and the other's sick, twisted.

could be so much deliberate cruelty and so much kindness in one species.

She was fierce because she was afraid. Of everything. The rest of the world saw a strong, noble lioness. He looked at his daughter and saw Bert Lahr, though he'd never tell her that. Or her husband.

Now here he was, drunk and sober at the same time. Each half of him disgusted at the other.

What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.

The human in what it is objectively ever since its beginning is two, two who are different. Each part of what constitutes the unity of the human species corresponds to a proper being and a proper Being, to an identity of one's own. In order to carry out the destiny of humanity, the man-human and the woman-human each have to fulfill what they are and at the same time realize the unity that they constitute.

i bear witness to no thing more human than hate i bear witness to no thing more human than love

But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.

Aren't we all monsters inside?

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.

someone who could love so hard and so well could also hate, and hurt, as deeply

one half leaning in, one half pulling away.

It was possible, Trixie supposed, that everyone had two faces: Some of us did a better job of hiding it than others.

Nobody's all good or all bad. They just get painted that way.

You lie to convince people you are not a monster . . . not that you are one.