"I've been accused of darkness by my inner light."
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"At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings."
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"Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness."
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"A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun."
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"The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)"
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"Granny Weatherwax, who had walked nightly without fear in the bandit-haunted forests of the mountains all her life in the certain knowledge that the darkness held nothing more terrible than she was."
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"The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness."
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"So much of my self worth was tied with my position. It felt like I was being enveloped in darkness. It was a sense of loss of enthusiasm, a loss of happiness, a significant decline in self worth."
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"In the beginning Marvel created the Bullpen and the Style. And the Bullpen was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the Artists. And the Spirit of Marvel said, Let there be The Fantasic Four. And there was The Fantasic Four. And Marvel saw The Fantasic Four. And it was good."
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"There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception."
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"The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag."
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"The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility."
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"Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness."
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"There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife."
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"There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains."
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"Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance."
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"What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness."
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"He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
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"Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too."
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"We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers."
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