Quotes About Duality

I am a lie that always speaks the truth.

Eu sunt mai aproape de tata: el î?i punea speran?ele într-o schimbare bazat? pe amintire. M? împart, ca el, între aceste dou? lumi apuse, pline de str?lucire ?i de for??: schimbarea ?i amintirea. ?i, între una ?i alta, refuz s? aleg.

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

So we must start from this dual nature of intelligence as something both biological and logical.

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

There is always another side, always.

Pretty as a painting, but thorny as a rose.

Il créait dans leur couple une zone d'ombre d'où pourrait sortir le meilleur comme le pire.

Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

Unfortunately, the very characteristic that led him to embody the goodness that surrounded him also led him to embrace evil when he met it.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

This is why we are not Manicheans: the same God who has created the world also saves it.

Light and darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers and sisters. They are inseparable. This is why goodness is not always good, violence not always violent, life not always enlivening, death not always deadly.19

To say that the individual can do nothing to break free of dualistic perception because it results in nondualistic perception is nonsensical, like saying a living being can't step off a cliff because it results in death, or that a dreamer can't wake up because he's dreaming.

For this whole dualistic universe thing to work, it's important that everyone doesn't just go wandering off; that they stay on stage and play their role. Fear is the glue that holds the whole thing together and keeps everyone in character.

I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan

It's like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

Am I a person or a weapon?" Always he wanted to know that he was a person. He just kept giving me different choices so one time I might slip up and say, "You're not a person." "You are a person. But like a person, you can be a weapon, too.

All virtues have a shadow.

Ya sé que eres traidora y que me tienes buena voluntad. Lo bueno crece junto con lo malo.

Insistence that both lead means there won't be any dance.

Those who say life is a glorious blessing are right. Those who say it is endlessly cruel are also right.

I find that people aren't all one thing. One rather wishes they were for simplicity's sake, but isn't the truth that people are good and bad, simple and complicated, happy and sad, frightened and courageous? It's all a mix. We learn to take in everything about a person as disparate parts to the whole, and it's the whole that we love, even at moments when the other isn't who we wish her to be.