“Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.”
“His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.”
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
“Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next...”
“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.”
“Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.”