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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    ― Plato
    tags: darkness, dishonesty, fear, light, willful-ignorance
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    Mark Twain
    “Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: darkness, human-nature, moon
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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
    tags: box, darkness, gift, love
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “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
    tags: darkness
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    Anne Frank
    “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
    ― Anne Frank
    tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed
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    Jess C. Scott
    “I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.”
    ― Jess C Scott, The Devilin Fey
    tags: dark, dark-divine, dark-humor, dark-lover, darkness, desire, emotion, emotional, emotional-plague, emotionally-scared, emotions, envy, gothic, gothic-fiction, gothic-romance, incubus, life, love, lust, paranormal, paranormal-fiction, paranormal-romance, passion, self, succubus, supernatural, supernaturalism, truth, urban-fantasy
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    Jean Genet
    “A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.”
    ― Jean Genet
    tags: darkness, dreams, time
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “It cannot be seen, cannot be felt,
    Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt,
    It lies behind stars and under hills,
    And empty holes it fills,
    It comes first and follows after,
    Ends life, kills laughter.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
    tags: darkness, gollum, hobbit, riddle
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    Franz Kafka
    “I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: darkness
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: dark, stars
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    Stephen King
    “Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
    ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
    tags: dark, jon-jake-chambers, stephen-king, tower
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    J.R. Ward
    “You are a manipulator.
    I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
    ― J.R. Ward, Lover Eternal
    tags: brothers, comedy, dark, euphemism, label, manipulation
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe
    tags: age, dark, dreaming, dreams, future, inspirational, past, time
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    “Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
    ― Joss Whedon
    tags: dark, humour, joke, perspective, stories, writing
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    Neil Gaiman
    “How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
    "I swear it," said the other mother. "I swear it on my own mother's grave."
    "Does she have a grave?" asked Coraline.
    "Oh yes," said the other mother. "I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: dark, humor, mothers
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    Stephen King
    “It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.”
    ― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
    tags: bright, dark, day, night
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    Oscar Wilde
    “I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
    tags: dark, disillusionment
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    Amy Bloom
    “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: beauty, body-image, imperfections, self-acceptance
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    Amy Bloom
    “The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.”
    ― Amy Bloom, Away
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    Amy Bloom
    “Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.”
    ― amy bloom
    tags: love
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    Amy Bloom
    “Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.”
    ― Amy Bloom, Away
    tags: confessions, memory, nostalgia
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    Amy Bloom
    “Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: women
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    Amy Bloom
    “I do not say what I feel, and people often take that for shyness, even kindness.”
    ― Amy Bloom, Come to Me
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    Amy Bloom
    “Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.”
    ― Amy Bloom
    tags: love, marriage
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    Amy Bloom
    “You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.”
    ― Amy Bloom
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    Amy Bloom
    “Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.”
    ― Amy Bloom
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    Amy Bloom
    “A blind man can see how much I love you”
    ― Amy Bloom (Author)
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    Amy Bloom
    “There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.”
    ― Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories
    tags: writing
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    Amy Bloom
    “I think the most important thing in the world is being brave. I'd rathe be brave than beautiful. Hell, I'd settle for acting brave. ”
    ― Amy Bloom
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