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"A silence reigns upon the air, Upon the pansies by the shore, Upon the violets, pale and fair, Upon the willow, bending o'er; The reeds and lilies silent grow, The dark green waters silent sleep, Save when the summer breezes blow, Or silvery minnows leap."
"The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about."
"You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet."
"Art is a leap into the dark."
"I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love."
"Since, during storms, flames leap from the humid vapors and dark clouds emit deafening noises, is it surprising the lightning, when it strikes the ground, gives rise to truffles, which do not resemble plants?"
"Because we would not wear any clothes because it was so hot and the windows open and the swallows flying over the roofs of the houses and when it was dark afterward and you went to the window very small bats hunting over the houses and close down over the trees and we would drink capri and the door locked and it hot and only a sheet and the whole night and we would both love each other all night in the hot night in Milan. That was how it ought to be."
"It's a dark culture that we live in. But you were called to glow in the dark."
"I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention and one day I decided I had better things to do."
"Life goes on, even if two-headed and glowing faintly in the dark."
"When it's dark enough men see stars."
"Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that."
"Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud."
"He did not know or care whether they were wizards or Muggles, friends or foes; all he cared about was that a dark stain was spreading across Dobby's front, and that he had stretched out his thin arms to Harry with a look of supplication. Harry caught him and laid him sideways on the cool grass. "Dobby, no, don't die, don't die -" The elf's eyes found him, and his lips trembled with the effort to form words. "Harry...Potter..." And then with a little shudder the elf became quite still, and his eyes were nothing more than great glassy orbs, sprinkled with light from the stars they could not see."
"people themselves are full of tunnels: winding, dark spaces and caverns; impossible to know all the places inside of them. Impossible even to imagine."
"I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision."
"Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch; Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch."
"The strongest trees are rooted in the dark places of the earth. Darkness will be your cloak, your shield, your mother's milk. Darkness will make you strong."
"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree."
"We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric car doesn't emit fumes."
