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You cannot pass," he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udûn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass.
J. R. R. TolkienRead
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Leonardo Da VinciRead
Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
Margaret AtwoodRead
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.
Henry David ThoreauRead
Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
Rabindranath TagoreRead
Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.
Denis Parsons BurkittRead
Some of the shrewdest insight into natural processes have been greeted at the outset by the exclamation 'But that's ridiculous'.
Lewis ThomasRead
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.
Albert SchweitzerRead
The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.
SocratesRead
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.
Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyRead
I pray you never stand at any crossroads in your own lives, but if you do, if the darkness seems so total, if you think there is no way out, remember, never ever give up. The darker the night, the brighter the dawn, and when it gets really, really dark, this is when one sees the true brilliance of the stars.
Gerda Weissmann KleinRead
In the dark, all cats are grey.
Benjamin FranklinRead
Why must holy places be dark places?
C. S. LewisRead
Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
James DeanRead
It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
Loren EiseleyRead
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.
Rod SerlingRead
But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
Robin WilliamsRead
Collectivism is the ancient principle of savagery. ... Collectivism is not the 'New Order of Tomorrow.' It is the order of a very dark yesterday.
Ayn RandRead
It's the attitude about life, man. Looking at the light instead of the dark. Looking at love instead of fear.
Quincy JonesRead
If you're not dark inside and you come to this world, it'l turn you dark... and if you really have Sunshine inside you, it's not good to play in the dark. It's just gonna extinguish your fire.
Tupac ShakurRead

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