Quotes About Duality

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.

Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . . .

Employee of the month is a good example of how somebody can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.

Two women placed together makes cold weather.

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Woman is at once apple and serpent.

Women are the twin halves of men.

Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict

The other side of... pain is joy... control is freedom... sadness is happiness... chaos is calmness... individuality is community... hate is Love... Seek out balance whenever you can...

There is only a thin line between love and hate...And sometimes it seems like we are dancing on that line.

The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.

Why did god create a dual universe? So he might say 'Be not like me. I am alone.' And it might be heard.

It wasn't playing both sides of the fence – it was betting against yourself but still playing to win – and it encapsulated everything absurd and paradoxical that I loved about the French.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. (Death)

Regal Black Swan told me that in this world of personalities, there is always a duality. I had interpreted it as good versus bad, slavery or freedom, conformity and its opposite. But that is not the case. It is not black or white; it is always shades of gray. And most important, all the gray is moving in a progressive pattern back to the originator. I teased about our age and told him I needed another fifty years just for comprehension.

Everything in the world cooks down to two. Either- or, if-then, yes-no, night-day, good-bad. You all believe in twos so much I wonder if any of you can count to three.