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Quotes About Duality

Se mi capita di essere coerente, è solo per incoerenza della mia incoerenza.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Durante el día soy un inútil; en la noche soy yo mismo.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I am me again, exactly as I am not.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It would be interesting to be two kings at the same time: not the one soul of them both, but two distinct, kingly souls.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I'm two people who mutually keep their distance — Siamese twins living separate lives.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Each of us is two, and when two people meet, come into contact or join together, it's rare that the four of them can agree. If the man who dreams in the man who acts is so frequently at odds with him, how can he help but be at odds with the man who acts and the man who dreams in the Other?
~ Fernando Pessoa
The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think. And I'm doomed always to feel, like the world's great damned men, that it's better to think than to live. 202
~ Fernando Pessoa
İki kiÅŸiyim ben - ikisi de ortalar?ndaki mesafeyi koruyor, aralar?nda hiçbir baÄŸ olmayan Siyam ikizleri bunlar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
But I also see that in order to flee from all this I must either master it or repudiate it. I do not master it because I cannot rise above reality and I do not repudiate it because, whatever I may dream, I always remain exactly where I am.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Depending on how you look at it, anything can be both astonishing and an obstacle, everything and nothing, a way forward or a cause for concern. Looking at something differently each time means renewing it and multiplying it.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.
~ Clive Owen
I haven't become a satanist, but I am fascinated by the character of the devil.
~ Robert Lepage
I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.
~ Clark Johnson
I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
~ Macaulay Culkin
I want to tell more stories about lying, dual lives, self-deception - those are my favorites.
~ Courtney A. Kemp
I'm brave and fearless when I'm performing, but in real life, I'm actually quite prudish.
~ Roisin Murphy
When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.
~ George Foreman
I believe that I am male and I am female.
~ Joni Mitchell
I really try to balance my feminine and masculine energy when I write.
~ Kali Uchis
Masculine and feminine aspects exist in all beings.
~ David Deida
I like Lita because she is very feminine but aggressive.
~ Maryse Mizanin
I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.
~ Shonda Rhimes
Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
It's hard for people to see you one way, but you're really the other way, so it's kind of like, 'Who am I, who are you?' Sometimes, I confuse even myself.
~ Nicole Polizzi