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“On her proud soul, I tell you, I have affixed my seal above; so from your cloister I repel you, this is my kingdom, here I love!”

Book:Demon

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Demon

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Mikhail Lermontov

A renowned Russian writer, poet, and literary critic. His works are characterized by their profound thoughtfulness and artistic value, and have had a profound impact on Russian literature. more

“In Murasaki Shikibu's time living spirits were both a grotesque phenomenon and a natural condition of the human heart that was right there with them. People of that period probably couldn't conceive of these two types of darkness as separate from each other. But today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just like an iceberg, what we label the ego or consciousness is, for the most part, sunk in darkness. And that estrangement sometimes creates a deep contradiction or confusion within us.”

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Book:Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“But in the dark everything was unnatural; the silence and the darkness were in themselves something like death.”

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Book:Seven Who Were Hanged

Source: Seven Who Were Hanged

“As fear runs through me I become acutely aware of a stillness. I don’t think I ever realized that there is a stillness in darkness. It feels as if fear and freedom are the same. I wonder if death holds this kind of infinite silence and solitude.”

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Book:The Lost Pleiades: Seven Sisters and the Sibyls

Source: The Lost Pleiades: Seven Sisters and the Sibyls

“Do not worry about what name people give you. Instead, seek the truth despite all the labels they put on you. Do not get depressed by the darkness around you because the more significant the darkness, the easier you will see the light.”

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Author:Rolf van der Wind

“Without darkness, there will be no discovery of light.”

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Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“The greatest light is that which shows us how dark our own light really was.”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Solitude need not be lonely if you make friends with your thoughts.”

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Author:Anthem Fox

“Come, O darkness, come! Swallow all the shadows I have been chasing all my life. I want to meet my true self at the break of dawn.”

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Author:Shunya

“It's wrong to encase a monster in flesh, to give it a face. It belittles the darkness, makes it smaller, dimmer, to decant it into the image of one particular man .”

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Book:Dracula, Motherf**ker!

Source: Dracula, Motherf**ker!

“Shatter it and you won't be able to put it back together. Trust is fragile.”

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Author:Al Amshan Abdulhadi

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