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Quotes About Duality

The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss.
~ Erin Hunter
Life is a mixture of light and shadow, calm and storm, and it's all good.
~ Susan W. Krebs
Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.
~ John Gray
All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.
~ Billy Graham
Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
~ Henry Miller
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.
~ Jeanette Winterson
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
~ Paulo Coelho
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
~ Pythagoras
Now the two primal Spirits, who reveal themselves in vision as Twins, are the Better and the Bad, in thought and word and action. Between these two the wise ones chose aright; the foolish not so.
~ Zoroaster
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her.
~ Paule Marshall
I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.
~ Greta Garbo
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
~ Samuel Beckett
I think that light and shadow have exactly the same duality that exists between life and death.
~ Manuel Alvarez Bravo
I live a dual life. On the red carpet, it's complete glam. But at home, I'm a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl. Simple can be beautiful.
~ Ashley Greene
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.
~ Helen Mirren
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.
~ Joseph Addison
Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed
~ E. F. Schumacher
Life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both.
~ Alexander Skarsgard
Life consists of two sides ... light and dark. Joy and sorrow. Without a balance, one cannot fully experience a full and well-rounded life.
~ JoAnn Ross
I can be both of us at once so no one will have to miss her, most of all me.
~ Jennifer Niven
Suddenly life feels fast and slow at the same time. It's like being in two places at once.
~ Jenny Han
It's my gift and my curse.
~ Jenny Han