"When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk."
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"What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down"
"Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance."
"We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn."
"Dawn is born at midnight."
"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."
"February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter."
"A still more glorious dawn awaits / not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise / a morning filled with 400 billion suns / the rising of the milky way"
"But He is risen, a later star of dawn."
"I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'"
"Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches"
"A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it."
"You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come."
"I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life."
"Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered."
"Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven."
"Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared."
"I'm so horny the crack of dawn better watch out."
"In the presence of your Satguru, knowledge flourishes; sorrow diminishes; without any reason joy wells up; lack diminishes, abundance dawns and all talents manifest"
"If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness."