Quotes About Duality

I could not tell whether it was a double or you playing games. The third possibility did cross my mind, though-that you had duelled in some adjacent area of Shadow for a sufficient time to cast shadows of yourself.

He was staring at me as he advanced, no special expression on that face so like my own.

Hell has ways of permeating heaven's membrane.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

I want to be both pathetic and admirable, I want to be at the same time a child and an adult. Thereby I gamble, I take a risk: for it is always possible that the other will simply ask no question whatever about these unaccustomed glasses; that the other will see, in the fact, no sign.

Henceforth I would have to cosent to combine two voices: the voice of banality (to say what everyone sees and knows) and the voice of singularity (to replenish such banality with all the élan of an emotion which belonged only to myself).

The other's body was divided: on one side, the body proper--skin, eyes--tender, warm; and on the other side, the voice--abrupt, reserved, subject to fits of remoteness, a voice which did not give what the body gave. Or further: on one side, the soft, warm, downy. adorable body. and on the other, the ringing, well-formed. worldly voice--always the voice.

My claim is to live to the full contradiction of my time

Ciò che reclamo è vivere la piena contraddizione del mio tempo, che mai così bene ha reso al sarcasmo la condizione della verità.

Two people seemed to coexist inside George Washington's breast. One was the political militant who mouthed republican slogans; this Washington thought his troops would fight better if motivated by patriotic ideals. The other, schooled in the British military system, believed devoutly in top-down discipline and rank as necessary to a well-run army. This Washington was also the Virginia planter who felt little in common with the scruffy plebeians around him.

Mr. J.P. he's such a sweetie underneath the sternness

The young Washington could be alternately fawning and assertive, appealingly modest and distressingly pushy.

Perhaps we half and halfs should always make a choice, one nationality instead of the other, one language instead of the other. We should nourish one identity and starve the other so that it would atrophy and drop off. Then we could relax and become like everyone else, we could snuggle up to the majority and fit in.

But very quickly I discovered that passing didn't just mean slipping below the surface, it meant being buried alive. I was still me on the inside, trapped in there with all my wounds and fears. But I was no longer me on the outside.

For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people

Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

She generally gave herself very good advice (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a came of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on each

pues a esta curiosa criatura le gustaba mucho pretender que era dos personas a la vez.

No? Part girl, part wolf? Do they lick their butter knives?

Well, I mean, all the best people have a little beast in them.

She felt oddly safe with him, though not safe from him.

W]hat is considered weakness in one gender is often strength in the other.