"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

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

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

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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."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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

Donna Lynn Hope, Jamaican Author

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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."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

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

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Darkness, Hell, Desire, Connection

"Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily."

Paul Westerberg, American Musician

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"Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair."

Ovid, Roman Poet

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"It was a dark story."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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"Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

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"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."

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"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."

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