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• Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
  -- Edward Young (1684-1765) - Night Thoughts, Night v, Line 661...
• Out of the shadow of night, the world rolls into light. It is daybreak everywhere. -- Longfellow
• We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world.
  That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do....
• Why does the evening, does the night, put warmer love in our hearts?
  Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? Or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life, that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing there remains but souls?...
• With a little inner pirouette of excitement I realised just how much there was to look forward to tomorrow.
  The thought of being all day naked in the sun was delicious enough in itself, but there was the whole of our new world to explore....
• Guinan: "That was Setting Number One. Anyone want to see Setting Number Two?
  -- "Night Terrors", Stardate unknow...
• How infinitely superior to our physical senses are those of the mind!
  The spiritual eye sees not only rivers of water but of air....
• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
  It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime....
• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
  It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset....