Quotes About Duality

We get the right sort of man, but the wrong side of him...

Nature pulls one way and human nature another.

We move between two darknesses.

How wide the gulf between Henry as he was and Henry as Helen thought he ought to be! And she herself—hovering as usual between the two, now accepting men as they are, now yearning with her sister for Truth. Love and Truth—their warfare seems eternal. Perhaps the whole visible world rests on it, and if they were one, life itself, like the spirits when Prospero was reconciled to his brother, might vanish into air, into thin air.

The idealism and the brutality that ran through boyhood had joined at last, and twined into love. No one might want such love, but he could not feel ashamed of it, because it was "he", neither body or soul, nor body or soul, but "he" working through both.

The horrible truth, that wicked people are capable of love, stood naked before her, and her moral being was abashed.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

If food is your best friend, it's also your worst enemy.

When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes -- disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right.

Ron fut frappé par le contraste qui régnait entre les coulisses de la justice avec leurs cages à barreaux d'arrière-cour et la solennité très digne de la salle du tribunal. Le public voyait l'édifice, pas les communs.

There's two to wash, two to dry; There's two who argue, two who cry.... There's two to kiss, two to hug; And best of all, there's two to love!

Even the DEVIL is only eighty percent EVIL, and not one hundred percent.

There is no equal between good and evil.

Coitados, pensavam que eu gostaria de ler histórias de pessoas sem contrastes, em que os bons são sempre bons e os maus sempre maus, e a bondade e a maldade se acham divididas por uma muralha da China bem definida, e ainda bem, para sabermos de que lado convém estar.

e seres humanos que inventam flautas, escrevem poesia, acreditam eu Deus, conquistam o Planeta e o espaço em seu redor, combatem doenças para atenuar o sofrimento, mas também não hesitam em destruir outros seres humanos para seu ganho pessoal, inventam a internet, descobrem maneiras de a transformar num instrumento de progresso e de catástrofe e, ainda por cima, se interrogam sobre as bactérias, formigas, abelhas - e si próprios.

The West is eveningland, the East morningland.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Some stories," she says, "can be both false and true at the same time.

And as he looked, turning the leaf over and back, Aethon saw that the cities on both sides of the page, the dark ones and the bright ones, were one and the same, that there is no peace without war, no life without death, and he was afraid.

one with a rifle and the other wearing headphones.

Though it will seem simple at first, it's actually quite complicated. No, no, it will seem complicated at first, but it's actually quite simple.

?????, ornis, it means both bird and omen—