The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.
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In darkness there is no choice. It is light that enables us to
see the difference between things; ... 
Darkness is nothing
The sunrise and sunset shows us that in life there are ups and downs. There is light and darkness. 
Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light? 
There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be ... 
There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well a... 
There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well a... 
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we
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight. 
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I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
When you really see how much God loves you, there's no greater love than that, and I had to matc... 
Every weakness contains within itself a strength. 
Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is... 
His pity for them had been overwhelming; but pity was not action.