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"It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe."
"Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light."
"Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald Reagan might've been the beginning of my giving up on my species. Because it was absurd. To this day it remains absurd. More than absurd, it was frightening: it represented the rise to supremacy of darkness, the ascendancy of ignorance."
"The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness."
"Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey."
"The major and almost only theme of all my work is the struggle of man with "God": the unyielding, inextinguishable struggle of the naked worm called "man" against the terrifying power and darkness of the forces within him and around him."
"He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light."
"No mortal man could frighten him, no more than the darkness could, nor the bones of his soul, the grey and grisly bones of his soul."
"When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope."
"Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light."
"He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone."
"Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself."
"Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation. Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights."
"There are two types of relationships: nourishing and toxic. Do not keep the toxic. What interaction does light have with darkness? None!"
"Keep walking. Hot night right now, right here. All you have is what you are. All you want is much too much. All you get is so much less. All you feel is nothing. All you see is darkness. All you know is senseless and all you can do about it is ride."
"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells."
"Light for some time to come will have to be called darkness."
"Weep, for the light is dead."
"Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name."
"If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace."
