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• The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.

  August Tholuck

  Bible, Heart, Dark

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 38, 1895.

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• I always say the truth is best even when we find it unpleasant. Any rat in a sewer can lie. It's how rats are. It's what makes them rats. But a human doesn't run and hide in dark places, because he's something more. Lying is the most personal act of cowardice there is.

  Nancy Farmer

  Running, Lying, Dark

  Nancy Farmer (2002). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• It was a shut door, and shut doors meant things kept to yourself. There were reasons you kept things to yourself, and they usually weren’t good, happy, open-air sort of reasons. Still, I didn’t want to see behind that door. You think you want to know everything there is to know about everything there is to know. But you don’t. Not really. I had pried the lid off of the dark places of another person before, I had seen inside. Down deep. You don’t want to look at what’s rotting there.

  Deb Caletti

  Dark, Thinking, Air

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• If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

  Stephen King

  Dark, Light, Names

  Stephen King (2011). “Full Dark, No Stars”, p.366, Simon and Schuster

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• I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have - I can reflect light into the dark places of this world - into the black places in the hearts of men - and change somethings in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life.

  Robert Fulghum

  Heart, Dark, Men

  Robert Fulghum (1999). “Robert Fulghum's All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”, p.99, Dramatic Publishing

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• Who doesn't have a dark place somewhere inside him that comes out sometimes when he's looking in a mirror? Dark and light, we are all made out of shadows like the shapes on a motion-picture screen. A lot of people think that the function of the projector is to throw light on the screen, just as the function of the story-teller is to stop fooling around and simply tell what happened, but the dark places must be there too, because without the dark places there would be no image and the figure on the screen would not exist.

  MacDonald Harris

  Dark, Thinking, Mirrors

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• The Russian soul is a dark place.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Dark, Soul

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• Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought.

  Victor Hugo

  Dark, Depth, Earth

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.292, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

  Bob Goff

  Prayer, Dark, Hands

  Bob Goff, Donald Miller (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.180, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Dark, Blood, Water

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wonder what kinds of songs Preston's father sang to him." Zach raised his eyebrows. "I wonder if he's in a cell humming them to himself right now." I should have said something-done something. He was in a dark place, there in the moonlight. But before I could say a word, Zach took a deep breath and looked up at the fortress. "I wonder if I should join him.

  Ally Carter

  Song, Father, Dark

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• Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

  Mark Twain

  Dark, Doors, Sobriety

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

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• Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Dark, Thinking

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• Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart -- the darkness that is always with us.

  Larry Heinemann

  Home, Heart, Dark

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• High school is a dark place; I hung out with ‘freaks.’

  Jared Leto

  School, Dark, Freak

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• I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.

  Sarah Silverman

  Dark, Thinking, People

  Sarah Silverman (2010). “The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee”, p.155, Faber & Faber

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• To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Gratitude, Grateful, Dark

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• When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

  Mark Lawrence

  Running, Dark, Light

  Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.152, Penguin

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• From the shore, the ocean is forever. It's a beautiful, dangerous place. Music is tied to the sea, born from the struggle, looking for hope. Because hope belongs in the dark places.

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Ocean, Struggle

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• Living as a couple never means that each gets half. You must take turns at giving more than getting. It’s not the same as a bow to the other whether to dine out rather than in, or which one gets massaged that evening with oil of calendula; there are seasons in the life of a couple that function, I think, a little like a night watch. One stands guard, often for a long time, providing the serenity in which the other can work at something. Usually that something is sinewy and full of spines. One goes inside the dark place while the other one stays outside, holding up the moon.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Couple, Mean, Dark

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• So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

  John Hanning Speke

  Dark, Pigs, Savages

  John Hanning Speke (2007). “Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We all have a dark place in us. It's what we do with it and the choice we make.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Life, Dark, Choices

  Mary E. Pearson (2011). “The Fox Inheritance”, p.284, Macmillan

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• In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.

  Stephen King

  Strong, Dark, Light

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• I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field from the outside, but from the inside what we know, those of us who read it, is that women buy the most crime fiction, they are by far the biggest readers of true crime, and there's a voracious appetite among women for these stories, and I know I feel it - since I was quite small I wanted to go to those dark places.

  Megan Abbott

  Reading, Dark, Fiction

  "The 'Girl' In The Title: More Than A Marketing Trend". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 22, 2016.

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• I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

  Tom Green

  Dark, Important, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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