Quotes About Duality

Nice person, bad person -- that's not the level this girl is at. I can see you're crazy about her and probably won't be able to hear this, Ao-chan, but I think you'd be better off staying away from someone like her. I can't read her exactly, but I can tell you she's either a saint or a monster. Maybe both extremes at once, but not somewhere in between.

For it is great to give up one's wish, but it is greater to hold it fast after having given it up, it is great to grasp the eternal, but it is greater to hold fast to the temporal after having given it up.

Järjestelmään liittyy sulkeutuvuus, mutta olemassaolo on jotakin täsmälleen päinvastaista.

Kierkegaard lo niega: placer físico y reflexión no pueden convivir).

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

I, too, have ropes around my neck. I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. I buck, I snort, I whinny, I rear, Ikick. Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Doyou hear? I refuse to choose.

Between the self and the other, between the visionary and the psychopath, between the lover and his love, between the overworld and the underworld, falls the Shadow.

How to dispense with Padma? How give up her ignorance and superstition, necessary counterweights to my miracle-laden omniscience? How to do without her paradoxical earthiness of spirit, which keeps—kept!—my feet on the ground? I have become, it seems to me, the apex of an isosceles triangle, supported equally by twin deities, the wild god of memory and the lotus-goddess of the present … but must I now become reconciled to the narrow one-dimensionality of a straight line?

America's secret identity wasn't a superhero. Turns out it was a supervillain.

Actually I think it's the left eye that sees the truth," he added. "It sees everything distorted and deformed. Which in fact everything is. The right eye is the one that sees the fiction of normality. So I have truth and lies, one eye for each. It's good.

I, too, have ropes around my neck, I have them to this day, pulling me this way and that, East and West, the nooses tightening, commanding, choose, choose. . . . Ropes, I do not choose between you. Lassoes, lariats, I choose neither of you, and both. Do you hear? I refuse to choose.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world.

Remember, what may appear to be the source of one's strength can often also be the source of one's weakness.

My strength is my weakness and weakness is my strength

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

Some virtues, when taken to the extreme, become crimes.

Sen de benim kadar uzun ya?asayd?n, zalimlikle yard?mseverli?in ayn? rengin iki tonu oldu?unu anlard?n.?#?romansokakta?

Franny entwined her legs with his. She understood why ancient monsters were often made of two creatures, with two hearts and minds. There was strength in such a combination of opposites.

Everyone knows a white blackbird is nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of what it ought to be.

There are those who say that heaven and hell are not so far apart. They are not at opposite ends of the world beyond ours, only a step away from one another.

Is it not beautiful?" I said of the world around us. Is it not terrible?