Quotes About Duality

when people overtly display some trait, such as confidence or hypermasculinity, they are most often concealing the contrary reality.

Fo each weakness there is a corresponding strength.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

tuve la sensación de que estaba viendo dos caras al mismo tiempo, la que conocía, la que era mi primer recuerdo, y otra, una segunda que estaba escondida bajo la superficie

Baba melihat dunia ini dengan sudut pandang hitam putih. Dan dia dia harus menentukan mana yang hitam dan mana yang putih. Kita tak akan mungkin mencintai seseorang yang hidup dengan pandangan seperti ini tanpa merasa takut padanya. Bahkan mungkin sedikit membencinya.

La corda che ti salva dall'inondazione può diventare un cappio attorno al collo.

There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

Minias smiled. Great. Another charming demon. I sort of prefer the insane ones.

Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual actions. So ultimately history is another particle/wave duality that no one can parse or understand.

A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe. —Le

When they passed the centaur king's cell, Volós pointed at Regin and slid his forefinger across his throat. She replied, "Hey, didn't I see you in a donkey show down in Tijuana? No? You've got a twin then—

Or maybe I was learning that nothing was black and white.

And at the end of the night, he stared down at her in puzzlement. He didn't know which facet of her he liked better. The siren in black satin that made his cock and fangs ache or this angel with her bright red hair spread across his pillow—who made his chest ache.

Portia's lips thinned. You think that because we're pure evil, we can't love? I think that because you love, you can't be pure evil, Nix countered.

Si tú eres el villano, no olvides que yo soy el monstruo.

In all these interludes with Sevastyan, I hadn't been Natalie. I'd been Natalya . And that brainless hussy didn't seem to know better.

Darkness does not always equal bad and Light does not always mean good.

A double-edged sword One side destroys One releases I am your Gordian knot Will you release or destroy me? Follow truth and you shall: Find me on water Purify me through fire Trapped by earth nevermore Air will whisper to you What spirit already knows: That even shattered anything is possible If you believe Then we shall both be free.

Martland has only two personalities – Wilde and Eeyore.

To me there is an intimate relationship between austerity and more lush aesthetics. They're two faces of the same coin.

I wonder how one can hate to love and love to hate the same person over a period of time in a relationship

There is harmony in the tension of opposites, as in the case of the bow and lyre.

I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I.