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“tis a majestic thing, The darkness.”
― Euripides, The Bacchae

“During this Lent term Maurice came out as a theologian. It was not humbug entirely. He believed that he believed, and felt genuine pain when anything he was accustomed to met criticism—the pain that masquerades among the middle classes as Faith. It was not Faith, being inactive. It gave him no support, no wider outlook. It didn’t exist till opposition touched it, when it ached like a useless nerve.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“The world itself has become a grain of sand on the shore of night.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Rocannon’s World

“I did not make it out, but this does. Art goes outside, even if we don't; it fills the whole air, though we cannot raise our voices.”
― Patricia Lockwood, Priestdaddy