“On the one side was the sluggish reptilian will for ease and sleep and death, rising sometimes to active hate and destructiveness; on the other side the still blindfold and blundering will for the lucid and coherent spirit.”

“The brain is wider than the sky,
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include
With ease, and you beside.”

“Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.”

“On the other side of pain, there is still love.”

“My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.”

“Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death.”

“There is no sport in hate where all the rage
Is on one side.”

“A hateful man who perhaps more than any other person exemplifies the backward side of Brazil that is still a huge and tragically worrying presence in this great nation.”

“Where there is love, there is often also hate. They can exist side by side.”

“They had clearly feared turn-of-the-century irrationality—religious overzealousness on one side, destructive hedonism on the other, with both heated by ideological intolerance and corporate greed.”