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Darkness Quote by H.G. Wells

“His was a darkness unbroken by a ray of thought or sensation, a dreamless inanition, a vast space of peace.” quote by H.G. Wells — Download Open image

““His was a darkness unbroken by a ray of thought or sensation, a dreamless inanition, a vast space of peace.””

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“Don't follow you,' said Filby.”

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“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the distance ahead of him. "Help, help!" he shouted, but his voice was thin, scarcely a thread of sound. The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried…

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When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone twice your size who wants to pound you into the earth - it feels as if you're being injected with darkness. It's like black water as cold as ice settling in your body where your blood…

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Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

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I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to…

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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

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“Even in darkness your lips taste of sunshine”

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“Defy me not for gleam can only shine in my existence" said Darkness.”

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