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Duality

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else — an animals incomplete compared to a person… and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary. – Georges Bataille

The world is not dialectical — it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil. – Jean Baudrillard

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. – William Blake

The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude. – Giordano Bruno

To separate oneself or one – Joseph Campbell

Our duality becomes indifference. We just want to live our lives. Thats my take anyway. – James Dye

Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid. – Tanith Lee

It happens as one sees in cages: the birds who are outside despair of ever getting in, and those within are equally desirous of getting out – Michel de Montaigne

The profound nature of relativity is not merely an abstraction of physics, it also explains why the distance from 1 to 1 million is greater than from 3 million to 5 million. – Eric Parslow

In me the tiger sniffs the rose. – Siegfried Sassoon

Every moment of light and dark is a miracle. – Walt Whitman