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"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."
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"There are different kinds of darkness, Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. "There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. I pictured each. "There is the darkness of lovers, and the darkness of assassins. It becomes what the bearer wishes it to be, needs it to be. It is not wholly bad or good."

"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."

"We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen."

"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!"
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