Quotes About Duality

Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle streams.

A good lawyer is part con man, part priest," I said. "No idea what you're talking about." "The con man promises riches if you hire him. The priest threatens hell if you don't.

Wetiko doesn't objectively exist, and yet, at the same time, it is not merely our projection or imagination. Instead of an either/or universe, where phenomena like wetiko are either real or unreal, there is an area in between in which it is both/and--both real and unreal at the same time.

Even the straightest path has two directions.

I've never quite understood the double Janus face of bi – Janus, the Roman god of gates and doors, especially closets.

One foot in the door, the other one in the gutter; The sweet smell that they adore, I think I'd rather smother

Love Contains Both "Yes" And "No

I am two women: one wants to have all the joy, passion and adventure that life can give me. The other wants to be a slave to routine, to family life, to the things that can be planned and achieved. I'm a housewife and a prostitute, both of us living in the same body and doing battle with each other.

After all, the task of the humanists is surely not that of pitting their slogans against the slogans of the oppressors, with the oppressed as the testing ground, "housing" the slogans of first one group and then the other. On the contrary, the task of the humanists is to see that the oppressed become aware of the fact that as dual beings, "housing" the oppressors within them­ selves, they cannot be truly human.

If I saw myself erewhile Prisoned, bound, kept out of sight, 'Twas that never on my mind Dawned the truth; but now I know Who I am — a mingled show Of the man and beast combined.

En esta vida todo es verdad y todo mentira.

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time

Qué monstruo bicéfalo se va creando así? Te volvés simétrico con el otro, los metabolismos se sincronizan, funcionás en espejo; un ser binario con un solo deseo. Y el hijo llega para envolver ese abrazo y sellarlos con un lazo eterno. Es pura asfixia la idea.

Sometimes the opposite of loss is loss.

We are all of us both light and dark, do you not find it so, Miss Tremayne? Wanting in our hearts to do right and able to do wrong. And so it's the choices we've made, surely, that make of us what we are.

Then she turns to me. 'Tell me. How are you really?' she says, as if there were two versions of my life, and now she is not on the verge of tears at all, but sharp-voiced as an interrogator.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

beware, whilst you assume the softness of the dove, to forget not the cunning of the serpent.

The angel grows up in divine knowledge, the brute, in savage ignorance, and the son of man stands hesitating between the two.

For just as without night there is no day, without work there is no play, without hunger there is no satiation, without fear there is no courage, without tears there is no joy, and without anger, there is no real love.

An Italian migrant once told me that … and he said, 'To be a migrant is both a curse and a blessing, because you will always hang between two countries.' This is a very good country, I quite enjoy it, it's fine, but I miss my country [Holland]. But I can't go back anymore my country's not my country anymore. Tinie Nieuwenhoven's, Dutch

Nothing is more natural, of course, than that extreme environments produce their opposites.

If you separate the writing process into two stages, you can exploit these opposing muscles one at a time: first be loose and accepting as you do fast early writing; then be critically toughminded as you revise what you have produced. What you'll discover is that these two skills used alternately don't undermine each other at all, they enhance each other.

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