duality [Theme]

Success is like pregnancy. Everyone congratulates you, but no one knows how many times you have been fucked.

The war seemed to him [Officer Butler] only in that he exposed himself to danger, the possibility of death, and thereby deserved rewards and the respect of both his local comrades and his Russian friends. The other side of the war: death, wounds of soldiers, officers, mountaineers, strange as it may be to say, was not even imagined in his imagination. Even unconsciously, in order to maintain his poetic idea of war, he never looked at the dead and wounded.

The dark essence of Light Magic.

- No way. I am a simple fellow who does not bother to think about what would happen if he were like this and would not be like that. I live in both yards and my trees are always taller. In a word, Mr. Fisher, there are two people sitting in front of you. And one thing you need to fear, you owe him.

Everything in the world is duality. All of us are both alive and dead, the chosen and the abandoned always exist in grand order. The root of self-love, what is hateful, I am.

The world is twofold, it has pros and cons, a sea of truth and a sea of lies!

I of all people (all that exists), and I'm a separate individual, separated from all people (and all that exists). Simultaneity, the real unity of these two contradictory States requires a certain attitude. Usually I realize a single aspect of any separateness or connection; at such moments, the other side seems vague and abstract. But, being a man, I can't break this duality is so easy. I realize both parts, if you want to fully feel alive. So, to achieve realization, I must have some very close relationships, some more formal, and I should be open to his humanity and commonality with all people. At the same time I have to stay in your inner center and to respect their own need for solitude. Only with your own inner feelings, each of us can achieve a balance of these parts.

Each person simultaneously and is part of the other, and separated from all others. Just as we are, for the most part, connected with all other people, we are also forever separated from them all. This constant and, at first glance, contradictory duality is at the basis of all our relationships and permeates the very essence of our existence.

"My beloved is white and ruddy, his skin like gold..." despite the fact that he hasn't washed since last December.
"His eyes are as the eyes of doves, the body of ivory, his legs like pillars of marble..." in pants so dirty they stand by themselves.
"Love it all"... but it will always be a small-time hood, so it will never be my beloved. What a shame.

Eight years in the Vice squad taught me that life between two worlds costly. Out of paranoia begin to question any decision. Then secrets and lies are gradually destroying you, and you disappear. <...>
Eight years... eight days will not last. I think I know whose side I'm on. Now I don't know who to believe. And for that, I hate them both. I just know that when Christina finds out who I really am - I'm going to lose her. And I think that if I last longer, there is a way out, and that daughter will not be ashamed of me.

The girl, she well behaved. You know, it seems that those who are for the bread with two fingers, and the hell with two hands.

Everything has two sides.
There's two sides to everything.

Ilya [kormil'tsev] had a unique talent for saying the most terrible things in simple, everyday words. Everything seems to be fine, nothing special, until you look at the picture closer...

When something bad happens, we must remember that we not only determines one.
When something bad happens, we have to remember we're not defined by any one thing.