“[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.”

—  Olaf Stapledon

Part V The Reign of Darkness, 2. A Synthetic War
Darkness and the light (1941/42)

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