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Darkness
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“And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light. ”
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“Darkness did not seem so much to fall as it did to rise from a hushed earth to the bright face of the sky. And the sky, at first, strained away — resisting, retreating. But at last the night won — slowly, inexorably, until at last all of earth and sky were cradled in its arms.”
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“I'm not frightened of the darkness outside. It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.”
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“Without darkness there are no dreams.”
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“The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.”
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“If you know the dark, you find it has a light of its own to let you see.”
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“If one is willing to adapt, the darkness offers a place to step beyond the known edge and explore, a place of silence and sound, a place both unpopulated and populous, filled with things we may not see by day.”
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“Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness ...”
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“The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.”
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“Don't be afraid of your dark places. ... If you can shine a light on them, you'll find treasure there.”
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“Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.”
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“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”