"The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all."
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"I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope—only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words."
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"I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness."
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"I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn."
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"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."
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"Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet"
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"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."
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"It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us."
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"They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles."
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"You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized."
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"When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone."
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"Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?"
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"Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own."
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"The darkness that had come in from the Mediterranean covered the city so detested by the procurator."
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"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
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"My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light."
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"But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold complexities—its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what has happened to us."
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"Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see."
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"This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance."
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"The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness."
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