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• Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Men, Doors

  "The Little Country". Book by Charles de Lint, Part Two: The Lost Music, "The Touchstone", 1991.

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• We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Loneliness, Different

  Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Before I was ever in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes.

  Benicio Del Toro

  School, Eye, Circles

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• On stage, I am in the dark.

  Maria Callas

  Stage

  "Auction to make hearts of diva's devotees soar" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2000.

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• I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

  Connie Chung

  Age, Executives, Knows

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• If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

  Vivian Campbell

  Rocks, Justice, Humanity

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• I don't like the dark. I really am afraid of the dark.

  Monica Keena

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• It's always been said that comedy comes mostly out of the dark side anyway.

  Alan Thicke

  Sides, Comedy, Said

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• Don't talk like one of them. You're not! Even if you'd like to be. To them, you're just a freak, like me! They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out, like a leper! You see, their morals, their code, it's a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve. -The Joker

  Christopher Nolan

  Curves, Knights, People

  "Fictional character: The Joker". "The Dark Knight", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it.

  Kelly Lynch

  Believe, People, Sitting

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• No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.

  David Matthews

  Hope, Night, Shadow

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• The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Perfect, Atheism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Sadness, Eye

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.

  John Betjeman

  Children, Sight, Smell

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• One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Two, Black History, African American

  "Strivings of the Negro People" (1897)

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• All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Scary, Fairy Tale, Classic

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• The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Fall, Rivers

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• I have no dress except the one I wear every day. If you are going to be kind enough to give me one, please let it be practical and dark so that I can put it on afterwards to go to the laboratory.

  Marie Curie

  Science, Giving, Be Kind

  Marie Curie's instructions regarding a proposed gift of a wedding dress for her marriage to Pierre in July 1895, as quoted in Eve Curie Labouisse "Madame Curie: A Biography" translated by Vincent Sheean (p. 137), 1937.

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• A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

  Julien Green

  Stars, Children, Light

  Julien Green (1936). “Midnight”

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• There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fairy Stories, Afterlife, People

  "Stephen Hawking: 'There is no heaven; it's a fairy story'". Interview with Ian Sample, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

  Susanna Moodie

  Encouraging, Clouds, Looks

  Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.11, New Canadian Library

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• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  Edith Sitwell

  Rain, Fall, Loss

  "Still Falls the Rain" l. 1 (1942)

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• Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

  Joseph Conrad

  Earth, Said, Has Beens

  Joseph Conrad (2010). “Heart of Darkness”, p.6, Bibliolis Books

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