"What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath."
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"The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."
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"I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone."
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"As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness."
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"The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness."
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"I think it's darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution."
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"One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it."
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"Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are."
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"Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest."
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"Even lost in the darkness, my heart will find you."
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"The brutal regime of the dictator fell, the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny."
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"I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor."
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"I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness."
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"Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence."
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"Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light."
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"... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice."
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"The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying."
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"maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--"
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"We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us"
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"Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice."
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