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We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.

— Fitz James O'Brien

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Like every novice, I fancied myself a discoverer.

The Diamond Lens (1858)

I feel my capacity to experience a terror greater than anything yet conceived by the human mind—something combining in fearful and unnatural amalgamation hitherto supposed incompatible elements.

What Was It? A Mystery (1859)

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Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

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