"People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!"
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"Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses."
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"As for the end of the universe…I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?"
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"We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness."
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"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."
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"The light is the left hand of darkness."
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"In the midst of darkness, light persists."
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"If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, surrounded by a darkness more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere."
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"For darkness restores what light cannot repair."
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"...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all."
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"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle."
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"No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world."
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"The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace."
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"I got lost in the night, without the light of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me I was born again: I was the owner of my own darkness."
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"While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists."
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"Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light."
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"In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness."
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"You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world."
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"There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness."
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"When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed."
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