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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."
"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."
"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."
"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light."
"Most of us are imprisoned by something. We're living in darkness until something flips on the switch."
"It had been a bad trip ... fast and wild in some moments, slow and dirty in others, but on balance it looked like a bummer. On my way back to San Francisco, I tried to compose a fitting epitaph. I wanted something original, but there was no escaping the echo of Mistah Kurtz' final words from the heart of darkness: "The horror! The horror! ... Exterminate all the brutes!"
"I like their darkness but I also like the pop-side of the Velvet Underground."
Explore more quotes by Alexis de Tocqueville
"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."
"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults."
"The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction."
"Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic."
"Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy, those who had anything united in common terror."
"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class."
"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."
"Patriotism is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment."
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