"The light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere following Gandhi's assassination."
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"You're the light I can never have and I'm the darkness you'll never succumb to."
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"We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday."
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"There’s nothing more dangerous to the kingdom of darkness than a believer with the Word of God in their mouth."
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"A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls."
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"Who ignores the time walks in darkness, and who explores it is illumined by a great light."
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"You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear."
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"With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved."
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"Outside, in the newly fallen darkness, the world had been transformed. The sky had become a glistening tapestry of stars."
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"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
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"The ingredients of both darkness and light are equally present in all of us,...The madness of this planet is largely a result of the human being's difficulty in coming to viruous balance with himself."
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"The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."
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"It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time."
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"You start with a darkness to move through but sometimes the darkness moves through you."
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"Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it."
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"We wander through this life together in a semi-darkness in which none of us can distinguish exactly the features of his neighbour. Only from time to time, through some experience that we have of our companion, or through some remark that he passes, he stands for a moment close to us, as though illuminated by a flash of lightning. Then we see him as he really is."
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"This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine."
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"Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one."
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"To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets"
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"In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom."
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