Quotes About Duality

One way everything looks all right, the other way, it looks all wrong.

A lot of people I know would hate that ending, but not me. I loved it. Mainly because I got to make the book happy. I decided they made it. They made it to the past. I decided the past was our world, and the future was their world. It was parallel worlds.

Jonas, listening, thought suddenly about the bridge and how, standing there, he had wondered what lay Elsewhere. Was there someone there, waiting, who would receive the tiny released twin? Would it grow up Elsewhere, not knowing, ever, that in this community lives a being who looked exactly the same?

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

Everything in Heaven and Earth is the reflection of everything in Heaven and Earth. ? Everything in Heaven and Earth contains the pattern of everything in Heaven and Earth.

Imagine a wife and a mistress sharing the same toothbrush forever and ever, never knowing.

At all the funerals for love, love had its neat trick of making you mourn it so much, it reappeared. Popped right up from the casket. Or, if it didn't reappear itself, it sent a relative of startling resemblance, a thin and charming twin, which you took home with you to fatten and cradle, nuzzle and scold.

For reasons I have yet to define, Signor Arpelli stood out from his colleagues. The curled brim of his hat, perhaps. A certain mingling of gravity and levity- I thought the masks of Janus had merged in his eyes.

oppositosis.

Your Doppelgänger will regurgitate on your soul!

Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

Exactly right—folded quietly and knitted in right along with the working DNA there is a shadow self. This won't surprise poets. We carry our own genetic doubles, at least in part.

I put my hand on my chest and closed my eyes. I have a dinosaur heart, cold, massive, indestructible, a thick meaty red. And I have a glass heart, tiny and pink, that can be shattered. The glass heart belongs to Pollux. There was a ping. To my surprise, it had developed a minute crack, nearly invisible. But it was there, and it hurt.

the two J. P. Morgans even walked and talked alike.

And both sides would prove right.

What makes him so problematic—and why he continues to inspire such ambivalent reactions—is that his good side was every bit as good as his bad side was bad.

Por eso sus obras policiacas (setenta y nueve novelas, diecinueve piezas de teatro) son mundos circulares perfectamente explicables, juegos matemáticos para alivio no sólo de la cabeza sino del corazón, universos previsibles en donde el bien y el mal ocupan lugares prefijados.

I used to think the world was divided into good people and bad people, that you could pin responsibility for evil on certain definite people and punish the guilty. I'm still going through the motions.

Something I owe to the soil that grew— More to the life that fed— But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides to my head.

These two things fight together in me as the snakes fight in the spring. The water comes out of my eyes; yet I laugh while it falls. Why?

I am two Mowglis, but the hide of Shere Khan is under my feet.

He said, Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.

Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.

When up looks up, up is down. When down looks down, down is up. Not-one, not-two. Not same. Not different. Now do you see? It