Quotes About Duality

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

The person you love and the person who loves you are never the same person.

In movies there is a clear line between the good guys and the bad guys. In life, not so much.

Life is like a coin. Pleasure and pain are the two sides. Only one side is visible at a time. But remember other side is waiting for its turn.

I can't decide whether I'm a good girl wrapped up in a bad girl, or if I'm a bad girl wrapped up in a good girl. And that's how I know I'm a woman.

Every boy wants a good girl to be bad just for him. and every girl wants a bad boy to be good just for her.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Being strong and weak is just the same thing; you're brave to be strong and you're also brave to show your weakness.

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

Ma was using her for-company voice. Sweet on the outside but with an underlying death threat.

I was created to be destroyed.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Your desires will very often be contradictory and so will your strengths. All of our contradictions make us whole.

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

For dhrames always go by conthraries my dear.

My whole life, I grew up with this double vision, this vision of America but also Latin community.

My father had two personas: first, literary, and second, the way he lived. I've been brought up with all of this, but many other people have liked and admired his lifestyle.

A lot of my characters are people who are, in essence, lying to themselves. They present one thing, when in reality they're another thing. Maybe they're not as tough or as cool as they want to be.

Or had Howl slithered out so hard that he had come out right behind himself and turned out what most people would call honest?

Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate—love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. Sitting still, we are as daring as gladiators.

It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons. - Travis from The Good Father

It is time to venture out of the comforting land of either/or opposites and travel into the uncertain territory of both/and.

We were both lone twins.