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Quotes About Halves

The fact is, their obsessions interlock. Each has half of a secret message. What else can he do but try to fit the halves together? And if they spin out, wake from the dream with nothing, what has he sacrificed but solitary waiting? Nick sits in his ancestors' empty bedroom after midnight, reading by the lantern's low glow.
~ Richard Powers
I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.
~ Ernesto Che Guevara
All of the universe will be divided into two parts.
~ Jeff Rich
We might have been two opposite halves of one thing, complementary and conflicted.
~ Elizabeth Bear
What is the Truth? was askt of yore. Reply all object Truth is one As twain of halves aye makes a whole; the moral Truth for all is none.
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton
The two halves parted, with every sign of mutual respect. Neither chastised the other. There were no recriminations. In each of us there is a thief and a saint. The trouble of it is, we cannot part them.
~ Theodora Goss
Finnigin had always felt that some people are awkward to embrace; the contours of the bodies do not match. With Varian, it was as if they were two halves of a whole. Almost too comfortable.
~ Storm Constantine
Football, or soccer as it is known, is a game of two halves. It's a game with rules and a referee. FIFA, the governing body for football, follows neither the rule of law or has the oversight of a referee.
~ Sharan Burrow
They lived for different futures, but they were each other's unrecognized halves, and what fascination between them did come to pass was lit up, beyond question, with grace.
~ Thomas Pynchon
I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Both forms of consciousness, the one that bows before the facts and the other that mistakes itself for an overlord or creator of facts, are like the shattered halves of the truth that was not fulfilled in the world and the failure of which also affects thought. The truth cannot be patched together from its pieces.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Now, must she admit that he individual was an illusion and a falsification? There was no such animal. Except in the mechanical world. In the world of machines, the individual machine is effectual. The individual, like the perfect being, does not and cannot exist, in the vivid world. We are all fragments. And at the best, halves. The only whole thing is the Morning Star. Which can only rise between two: or between many.
~ D H Lawrence
There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
The french Captain tells me, I have caused a War with France," Truxtun wrote Stoddert. "If so I am glad of it, for I detest Things being done by Halves." The
~ Ian W. Toll
I live in what's left of the evidence not out there in the rotting garden the firebombed street and Plato's myth of lovers the fates meeting of equal halves is a tale for lonely kids
~ Paul Monette