"The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun."
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"Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."
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"How insupportable would be the days, if the night with its dews and darkness did not come to restore the drooping world. As the shades begin to gather around us, our primeval instincts are aroused, and we steal forth from our lairs, like the inhabitants of the jungle, in search of those silent and brooding thoughts which are the natural prey of the intellect."
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"Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue."
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"Jon passes from Darkness to Light."
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"When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death."
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"He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know."
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"Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating."
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"Ay, on the shores of darkness there is a light, and precipices show untrodden green; there is a budding morrow in midnight; there is triple sight in blindness keen."
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"I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground."
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"Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness."
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"The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me."
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"He whom loves touches not walks in darkness."
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"Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?"
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"Life is too short. It's too precious. We have to live in this world, but we don't have to wallow in it. We don't have to fill our lives with all of this darkness."
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"I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out."
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"I had diverged, digressed, wandered, and become wild. I didn't embrace the word as my new name because it defined negative aspects of my circumstances or life, but because even in my darkest days—those very days in which I was naming myself—I saw the power of the darkness. Saw that, in fact, I had strayed and that I was a stray and that from the wild places my straying had brought me, I knew things I couldn't have known before."
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"since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light"
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"Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair."
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"The truth isn't always a blinding light. Sometimes it's a deep and dazzling darkness, that illuminates - and burns - just as surely."
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