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“there is no darkness but ignorance;” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“The only social peril is darkness. Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.” Frederick Douglass, “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave” - 1845

“Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” - 2005

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“The prince of darkness is a gentleman” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.” Mark Twain, “Following the Equator” - 1897

“It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

“in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Return of the King” - 1955

“The night is long that never finds the day.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“And as the morning steals upon the night, melting the darkness, so their rising senses begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle their clearer reason.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, and we are for the dark.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

“Darkness there, and nothing more.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven” - 1845

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” - 1842

“Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.” Mark Twain, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” - 1876

“I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.” Charles Dickens, “Oliver Twist” - 1838

“The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into...” Winston Churchill, “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples” - 1956

“There are darknesses in life, and there are lights. You are one of the lights.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.” Jules Verne, “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea” - 1870

“But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.” Edith Wharton, “The Age of Innocence” - 1920

“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other.” Francis Bacon, “The Essays of Francis Bacon” - 1597

“To be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep—into the evil.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“The workings of the mind discover oft Dark deeds in darkness schemed, before the act. More hateful still the miscreant who seeks When caught, to make a virtue of a crime.” Sophocles, “Antigone” - c. 441 BC

“The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“I liked the area, it had great shade trees, and since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“Anxiously he explored every one of these vaguely seen shapes, as though among the phantoms of the dead, in the realms of darkness, he had been searching for a lost Eurydice.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing what ever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is...” Margaret Atwood, “Cat's Eye” - 1988

“May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“This is night, Diddykins. That’s what we call it when it goes all dark like this.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” - 2003

“'How do you take your coffee?' 'Dark as night, sweet as sin.'” Neil Gaiman, “Anansi Boys” - 2005

“The whole world is now for me divided into two halves: one half is she, and there all is joy, hope, light: the other half is everything where she is not, and there is all gloom and darkness...” Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace” - 1869

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.” Helen Keller, “The Story of My Life” - 1903

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