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"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."
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"The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light."
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"The dark might be dark, but at least we don't have to look at ourselves when we're standing in it."
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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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"There is the darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful."
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"The world outside existed in a kind of darkness; and we inquired about nothing."
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"Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us."
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"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."
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"There is no darkness but ignorance."
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"Darkness is happening," said the leather woman, very quietly. "Night is happening. All the nightmares that have come out when the sun goes down, since the cave times, when we huddled together in fear for safety and for warmth, are happening. Now."
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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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"I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well, it is dangerous - but beyond that there was the pressure of being young and of not yet having done work you really liked, trademark work, breakthrough work."
Work
"Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been."
Public
"In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything."
Party
"I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing."
Nothing
"I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred."
Fun
"If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the reality is, of the word, of the seedy or not so seedy fiction writer, the drunk or sober poet... Sometimes you can go looking for illumination."
Fiction
"I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this time I feel it as a decay of the odds that I might live for a while, that I can sleep it off."
Time
"I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness."
Life
"I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense."
Life
"I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not."
Man
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