Quotes About Duality

Here was all about the visible-invisible borders, the thin lines between here and gone, then and now, here and there, random and meant, big and small.

He was clearly in love with Amber too, and this time it wasn't the usual water off the back of the duck. Instead, the duck, wounded by a hunter and bewildered because half its head had been shot way, and was still tottering about on its webby feet by the side of the pond. From the one side it looked like a duck usually looks. From the other, it was a different story.

Schoolteachers can be some hard-eyed people, with talkin eyes; they mouth sayin one thing and them eyes be screamin another.

She liked the salty taste of contradiction on her tongue.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

I'm alive and dead now, at the same time, speaking in your poems.

I can't help but be both of you. I wanted to be able to take a side and will never again.

Não causa espanto que Marte seja o Deus da guerra e dos conflitos, assim como do progresso e da indústria. Ele destrói, reconstrói e volta a destruir. 'A guerra é o grande acelerador.

I live in a world where two truths coexist: where both hell and hope lie in the palm of my hand

You are the Fire Lily", said the Winterking softly. "And I am the Ice King. Does fire melt ice? Or ice melt fire? Or may they come together, fire and ice, neither melted nor quenched?

Virtue was ever double-edged.

You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.

Some men," she would add in ominous seriousness, "are nice as pie in public but within their own homes they are mean and miserly to those who have to live with them all the time. No one, perhaps, knows this except those who are captive within their houses.

The darkness inside you allows for a more human experience. Giving you the very thing you lacked before: an insider's knowledge of the two faces of man—the constant struggle between darkness and light.

acaso no destruimos por la noche el personaje que nos creamos durante el día día y viceversa?

Todo esto confirma mi metafísica: el cuerpo no es malo, el alma sí lo es. El cuerpo es la sangre: es puro. El alma es el cerebro: es grasa. La grasa del cerebro inventó el mal.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

I believe every major strength we have can be used against us as a weakness. At the same time, things that people see as weakness can be part of our strength.

For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything.

Your greatest strength can be your greatest weakness.

Sometimes our greatest strengths are also our greatest weaknesses.

Johannesburg is weird, because half of it is like Los Angeles. It feels like just wealthy parts of L.A. But half of it is severe slummy, something like Rio De Janiero or something. So it's kind of weird, because it's both happening at the same time.

The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.