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• Some people say their life is full of darkness and I wonder why they don't just try and switch the lights on.

  William H. Gass

  Light, People, Trying

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• . . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

  Frank Herbert

  Truth, Light, Knowing

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.20, Penguin

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• It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

  Harold Brodkey

  Loss, Funeral, Form

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

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Inspirational, Real, Eye

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• One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

  James A. Baldwin

  Return, Responsible, Beacons

  "Letter from a Region in My Mind" by James A. Baldwin, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 1962.

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• One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

  Carl Jung

  Love Life, Suicidal, Knowledge

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Alchemical studies”

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

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mary Oliver (2006). “Thirst: Poems”, p.61, Beacon Press

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• The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing.

  V. S. Naipaul

  World, Kind

  "Two worlds" by V. S. Naipaul, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2001.

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• If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, War, Night

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 1, l. 141

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• I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Trash, Pops

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

  Mark Haddon

  Book, Taken, Glimpse

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Life, Future

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• At night make me one with the darkness
  In the morning make me one with the light.

  Wendell Berry

  Morning, Night, Light

  Wendell Berry (2009). “The Mad Farmer Poems”, p.6, Counterpoint Press

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• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Cancer, Believe

  William Shakespeare, Ronald Knowles (1999). “King Henry VI Part 2: Third Series”, p.201, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dark, Earth, Said

  Joseph Conrad (2010). “Heart of Darkness”, p.6, Bibliolis Books

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• I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

  Brendan Fraser

  Believe, Thinking, Greek

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

  Terry Pratchett

  Light, Ankh, Arms

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Men At Arms: (Discworld Novel 15)”, p.291, Random House

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• Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

  Helen Keller

  Light, Trouble, Moments

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• Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Truth, Intelligent, Light

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.442, GENERAL PRESS

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• Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.

  Francis Bond Head

  Light, Mind, Republican

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• So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

  T. S. Eliot

  Light, Generosity, Dancing

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

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• Even so, one step from my grave,
  I believe that cruelty, spite,
  The powers of darkness will in time
  Be crushed by the spirit of light.

  Boris Pasternak

  Time, Believe, Light

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Jon Stallworthy, Peter France (1983). “Selected poems”, Lane, Allen

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• What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror

  Anish Kapoor

  Sublime, Interest, Terror

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• There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

  Pythagoras

  Men, Light, Order

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• We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Heart Of Darkness, Deeper

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.32, 谷月社

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