Misfortune is a test of people's fidelity.

A film set on the Lena River during the filming of 'Khara Khaar' (Black Snow) directed by Stepan Burnashev, in March 2019.

The distinction that lies in being unhappy (as if to feel happy were a sign of shallowness, lack of ambition, ordinariness) is so great that when someone says, "But how happy you must be!" we usually protest.

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

Nico

I like to let go of things that are close to me so as to run backward, toward times that are by now extinguished.

- Fleur Jaeggy

The fact is that no contradictory aspect can exist in isolation. Without its opposite aspect, each loses the condition for its existence.