Quotes About Duality

Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing.

I like middles. . . It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

That he would pause In his killing To go about the business Of preparing for the living Knowing That he will immediately return To the business of killing?

Scrooge is no Marley, and Marley is no Scrooge, and their partnership is the better for it.

There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

Twisted twins twinkling thick as thiefs.

Love and hate aren't as far apart as you think.

To some, you are a way to the light and to others you will be their true destruction.

Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.

Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.

We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear, violence and non-violence.

Everyone's life has positive and negative aspects whether you're happy and successful or not depends greatly on which aspects you focus on.

There are two sides to every story.

Isn't life so strange? You don't know whats real and what isn't. What there and whats not. Whats right or whats wrong. This isn't heaven and this isn't hell.. it's just someplace in-between

Everyone has three lives; a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

Life is neither a good nor an evil: it is a field for good and evil

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Life is a contradiction at times - as are we.