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I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light yo...

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Libba BrayA Great and Terrible Beauty

Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in th...

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There would be nothing but darkness, same darkness as everywhere else, an enormous darkness that swa...

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Louis-Ferdinand CélineJourney to the End of the Night

Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling.

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

A great ring of pure & endless lightDazzles the darkness in my heartAnd breaks apart the dusky cloud...

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I hate it!" Charles Wallace cried passionately. "I hate the Dark Thing!

We are going to your father," Mrs. Which said. "But where is he?" Meg went over to Mrs. Which and st...

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There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

To have them putting him on, trying him on, trying him out while he himself puts them on like a sock...

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Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar h...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

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...perhaps mankind must have a time of darkness so that we will one day again know what a blessing i...

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love ca...

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Martin Luther King, Jr.A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, w...

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A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake ag...

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We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against pover...

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Man dies of cold, not of darkness.

One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both...

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The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever...

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This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others ...

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An infinite, inscrutable blackness has annihilated sight! Where is our universe? All crumbled away f...

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as th...

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The universe is amply supplied with night.

She became certain that there was something in the dark behind her: something very old and very slow...

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Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmare...

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Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simp...

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It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part ...

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Neil GaimanSmoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions

Slowly gently night creeps up on you, more gentle than light, it helps you realize how much the ligh...

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Neil GaimanTrigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the st...

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I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, bet...

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Oprah WinfreyThe Best of Oprah's What I Know For Sure

Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it ...

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At times everything grows misty and dark before my eyes, and I feel that the strength of my whole bo...

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If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood--darkness is the time to ...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

I was born anew, owner of my own darkness.

I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the ...

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Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad netstowards your oceanic eyes.There in the highest blaze m...

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Oh, beloved, and there is nothing but shadowswhere you accompany me in your dreamsand tell me the ho...

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By night, beloved, tie your heart to mineand let them both in dreams defeat the darkness

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

Dark is the world’s night without you my love,

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Pablo NerudaThen Come Back: The Lost Neruda Poems

Life blackens at the contact of truth.

She always walked under the arches of nightsAnd everywhere she wentShe leftThe mark of broken things...

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Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the la...

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If the whole world is evil, then the tragedy that befell you is justified," she went on. "That would...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field wit...

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This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field wit...

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And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and yo...

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I will kill you if you set me free,' the eyes said. 'Set me free.

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afr...

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No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the...

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If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard...

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From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...

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Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for ...

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Darkness shields as much as it threatens.

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundre...

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Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundre...

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Rainer Maria RilkeThe Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

Lately, Mami’s eyes have been so dark, I don’t like looking into them because I’m afraid I’ll fall i...

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Montag shook his head. He looked at a blank wall. The girl's face was there, really quite beautiful ...

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Even Helen Keller, who was born blind and deaf, could see God. No doubt, in her silent darkness, eve...

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The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it's going to hate the light. The more it's going to ...

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He moves in darkness as it seems to meNot of woods only and the shade of trees.

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feetWhen far away an interrupted cryCame over houses fro...

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Robert FrostThe Poetry of Robert Frost

There was the bulge and the glitter, and there was the cold grip way down in the stomach as though s...

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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

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Roger ScrutonThe Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope

I no longer know the author of this book, for simply stopping long enough and writing it down was wh...

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There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that i...

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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less al...

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POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future.

A grief without a pang, void, dark and drear,A drowsy, stifled, unimpassioned grief,Which finds no n...

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Crooked Warden, I will fear no darkness for the night is yours. Your night is my cloak, my shield, m...

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All I know is a door into the dark

In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Sp...

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It is dreadful to think that behind me my own past is no longer anything but shifting darkness.

Your diet must be about fifty-fifty, carrots and locoweed," Annie said softly.He froze."I can't figu...

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How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

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Stefan ZweigThe Burning Secret and other stories

Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...

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Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better...

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They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.

His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God hel...

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Time takes it all, whether you want it or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end...

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He didn’t like the way things were going.There were bad omens in the wind, evil portents like bats f...

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She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a...

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Purest light will blind as surely as absolute darkness.

Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so o...

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Light jumping out of window is staring the dark from afar.

Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves stare at the dark from the fringe of s...

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Beware, Underlanders, time hangs by a thread.The hunters are hunted, white water runs red.The Gnawer...

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Its snaky acids kiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill,...

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I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its m...

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