Quotes about Duality

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

A saint abroad and a devil at home.

I'm completely sane except when I'm the opposite of that.

I picture myself standing between two boxes. From one the stench is unbearably brutal, bellowing out dark wisps of death. And the other box is full of white lilies. Their angelic blooms are fully stretched and sending out perfume, sweet and pure. A box of bitterness. A box of grace.

Constant reminders that love is doubly edged with the most beautiful potential and the most dangerous pain.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad--and what she has is always a package deal of both.

When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

The sun that warms is also the sun that burns.

It's in our ability to selectively engage and disengage our moral standards, and it helps explain how people can be barbarically cruel in one moment and compassionate the next.

Good can exist without evil whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright.