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“Night has patterns that can be read
less by the living than by the dead.”
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“Is there some meaning to this life?
What purpose lies behind the strife?
Whence do we come, where are we bound?
These cold questions echo and resound t...
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“Darkness devours every shining day.
Darkness demands and always has its way.
Darkness listens, watches, waits.
Darkness claims the day and celebrates.
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“Courage, love, friendship,
compassion, and empathy
lift us above the simple beasts
and define humanity.”
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“We can embrace love; it's not too late.
Why do we sleep, instead of with hate?
Belief requires no suspension
to see that Hell is our invention.”
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“Humanity yearns so desperately to equal God’s great creativity.
In some creations, how we shine: music, dance, story weaving, wine.”
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“Or are their dark fears exaggerated?
Are these doom-criers addlepated?
Those who fear the coming of all Hells are those who should be feared themselves”
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“Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song.
In each man’s troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.”
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“Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
and come to get you in the dark.”
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“We make Hell real; we stoke its fires. And in its flames our hope expires. Heaven, too, is merely our creation. We can grant ourselves our own salvation. All that’s required is imagination.”
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“We long to find the splendid light that will cast a revelatory beam upon the meaning of the human dream.”
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“Evil is a faceless stranger,
living in a distant neighborhood.
Evil has a wholesome, hometown face,
with merry eyes and an open smile.
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“Pestilence, disease, and war
haunt this sorry place.
And nothing lasts forever;
that’s a truth we have to face.”
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“Stranger fiends hide here in human guise than reside in the valleys of Hell.
But goodness, kindness, and love arise in the heart of the poor beast, as well.”
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“We spend vast energy and time plotting death for one another. No one, nowhere, is ever safe. Not father, child, or mother.”
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