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"Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free."
"O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?"
"No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know."
"In darkness one may be ashamed of what one does, without the shame of disgrace."
"Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness."
"There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness."
"I was adopted into this incredible home, a loving, positive environment, yet I had this yearning, this kind of darkness that was also inside me."
"Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them."
"I do not believe this darkness will endure."
"My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet."
"People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales."
"In overlooking, denying, evading this complexity--which is nothing more than the disquieting complexity of ourselves--we are diminished and we perish; only within this web of ambiguity, paradox, this hunger, danger, darkness, can we find at once ourselves and the power that will free us from ourselves. It is this power of revelation that is the business of the novelist, this journey toward a more vast reality which must take precedence over other claims."
"One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return."
"Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken."
"Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength."
"Praying is no easy matter. It demands a relationship in which you allow someone other than yourself to enter into the very center of your person, to see there what you would rather leave in darkness, and to touch there what you would rather leave untouched."
"One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created."
"We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world."
"One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark"
"Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest."
