Mark Twain Quotes About Darkness

• Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Fake People, Halloween

  Following the Equator ch. 66, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

• We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Sunset, Cat

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.55, eKitap Projesi

• Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

  Mark Twain

  Civilization, Giving, Darkness

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Portable Mark Twain”, p.495, Penguin

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