"Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness."
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"The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all."
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"The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled its banks, spread out in the tranquil dignity of a waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth."
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"Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness."
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"I want to see the thirst inside the syllables I want to touch the fire in the sound: I want to feel the darkness of the cry. I want words as rough as virgin rocks.” - Verb."
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"The darkness of a day elapsed, of a day nourished with our sad blood."
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"We move between two darknesses."
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"Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's."
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"The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence."
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"Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing."
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"I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests."
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"It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer."
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"The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness."
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"The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness."
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"Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light."
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"Angels are visible to those who accept the light and break the pact made with darkness."
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"Darkness feeds on apathy."
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"The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again."
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"PRESENTIMENT is that long shadow on the lawn Indicative that suns go down; The notice to the startled grass That darkness is about to pass."
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"Family is hugely important to me. Having kids is the best possible way to shake off any kind of darkness that might accompany a role that you're playing."
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