"In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle."
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"Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness."
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"Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing; for its members themselves are moribund."
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"I was the owner of my own darkness."
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"The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body."
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"And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more."
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"What started as a whisper Slowly turned into a scream Searching for an answer Where the question is unseen I don't know where you came from And I don't know where you've gone Old friends become old strangers Between the darkness and the dawn"
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"But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything."
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"Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness."
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"Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal."
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"Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it."
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"One may not reach the dawn save by path of night."
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"In paganism light is mixed with darkness, and religion and truth are blended with superstition and error."
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"How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?"
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"CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow despite the times’ darkness."
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"In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness."
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"To those searching for truth -- not the truth of dogma and darkness but the truth brought by reason, search, examination, and inquiry, discipline is required. For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction -- faith in fiction is a damnable false hope."
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"I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing."
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"Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness."
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"Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you."
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