"No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness."
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"This thing of darkness I acknowlege mine. There is nothing more confining than the prison we don't know we are in."
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"One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
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"All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other matters, You can be me when I'm gone Flowers gathered in the morning, Afternoon they blossom on, Still are withered in the evening, You can be me when I'm gone."
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"She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!"
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"The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
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"With all this darkness round me I feel less alone."
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"We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy."
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"Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance"
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"I say there is no darkness but ignorance."
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"The instruments of darkness tell us truths."
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"The darkness declares the glory of light."
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"The deeps are cold: In that darkness camaraderie does not hold: Nothing touches but, clutching, devours."
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"I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness"
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"I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust."
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"We can't repay our good luck with bad grace. It invites darkness."
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"Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it."
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"But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know."
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"If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death."
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"All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing."
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