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May Sarton

"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."

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"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."

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"Darkness is a place that encourages us to seek light."

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"A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."

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"Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other."

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"Beyond the edge of universe,there's a kind of real darkness...where even the light gone astray."

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"On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before."

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"Darkness never lasts forever. Morning always comes with the lights of love to brighten our future."

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"It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity."

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"I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete."

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"If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you."

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"Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle."

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