Quotes About Duality

He is a prodigy in limbo. In both halves

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

He's so damned nice and he's so awful. He's my sort of thing.

Also, he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister.

I'm full of poetry now. Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.

She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly

He was a boy born to be quite wicked who was being very good and he carried his wickedness around with him transmuted into a sort of teasing gaiety. But he was a bad boy and the others knew it and he knew it. He was just being good while his badness grew inside him.

Most of us get turned on at night by the very things that we'll demonstrate against during the day.

Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems

It's all right, I want to say to the students who write to me, for things to be what they appear to be, and for words to mean what they say. It's all right, too, for words and appearances to mean more than one thing--ambiguity is a fact of life.

You're two of a kind, and a bad kind.

She radiated the kind of positivity that suggested barely suppressed rage.

Julia's defining quality, maybe, was her combination of outer normality, even placidity, and a roiling, crazily volatile inner life that expressed itself mainly in her writing.

Joe Vik knew what he was. He saw that he was a monster in human skin and maintained that facade for as long as he could.

I am only half myself. the other side's a dark idea I like to believe in.

The observation of an object by an observer results in an equivalent observation of the observer by the observed object.

The Sword of Destiny has two edges. You are one of them. The other is... Death

O Bom ou o Mal, a Luz ou as Trevas, a Ordem ou o Caos? São apenas símbolos, na realidade não existe esse tipo de polaridade! Todos carregam a Luz e as Trevas um pouco de um e um pouco do outro. Essa conversa não tem sentido. Não tem sentido. Não vou conseguir me convencer do misticismo.

Every departure is at once a return, every farewell is a greeting, every return is a parting. Everything is simultaneously a beginning and an end.

The sword of destiny has two edges… You are one of them.

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

From beggar to thief is one step, but a step in two directions at the same time, for what a beggar loses in morality when he becomes a thief he regains in self-respect.

This clockwork twin of mine halted before me, her bowels churning out a settecento minuet, and offered me the bold carnation of her smile. Click, click--she raises her arm and busily dusts my cheeks with pink, powdered chalk that makes me cough; then thrusts towards me her little mirror.

There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.