Quotes About Duality

Wherever this is light, look for the shadow. The shadow is me.

The duality which you divine is the despair, the bankruptcy of logic and philosophy; it is the illusion which holds the human planetary system together.

La amo por lo que se ha atrevido a ser, por su dureza, su crueldad, su egoísmo, su perversidad, su demoníaca fuerza destructora. Me aplastaría sin la menor vacilación. Se trata de una personalidad llevada al límite. Adoro el valor con que hiere y estoy dispuesta a sacrificarme a él. Sumará mi ser al suyo. Será June más todo lo que yo contengo.

And. the page on the "I" and "he"—the double motif—is really superbly done. "Have I invented him? Am I talking? Am I what he is saying?" And when he tells you to shut up because you are deforming your own thought. Very beautiful.

Entre pelea y pelea somos intensamente felices. Infierno y paraíso a un tiempo. Somos a la vez libres y esclavos. En ocasiones parecía que supiésemos que la única atadura que puede unirnos es el frenesí, idéntica intensidad que entre amantes y queridas.

In between our quarrels we are acutely happy. Hell and heaven all at once. We are at once free and enslaved.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing.

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

Writers do not live one life, they live two. There is the living and then there is the writing. There is the second tasting, the delayed reaction.

I always see, almost simultaneously, the two sides of each idea, and the emotion is always polarized in me.

My own experience is that night and day are more alike than different -- in which case they couldn't possibly be opposite.

half man and half marble.

Here is what we need to discover about power: it is both better and worse than we could imagine.

What nourishes me also destroys me

This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.

Maybe I grew up too fast, maybe that's my trouble. I feel so lost out here...hung up between two worlds; half-kid and half-adult, half-boy and half-girl. And sometimes it seems like I get the dirty side of both.

She wasn't sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.

How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.

There are two kinds of people in the world. The kind who divide the world into two kinds of people and the kind who don't.

He wear a roo suit - grey-green dapple thing, ain't satisfy to be one ugly color, it be ugly twice.

Para que el Bien tenga mérito —enfatizó— hace falta que exista el Mal.

Supuse que todos nos despegamos de nuestra imagen en algún momento. Que traicionamos nuestra máscara

This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign can have two meanings. Like sides of a coin, it just matters how it falls.

It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.